The Seba library treats Opposition in 8 passages, across 7 authors (including Wilhelm, Richard, Richard Wilhelm, Cary F. Baynes, Jung, Carl Gustav).
opposition is actually the natural prerequisite for union. As a result of opposition, a need to bridge it arises; this is true as regards heaven and earth, man and woman.
The I Ching commentary establishes opposition as ontologically prior to union, the generative tension from which the drive toward reconciliation necessarily emerges.
, The I Ching or Book of Changes, 1950thesis
opposition is actually the natural prerequisite for union. As a result of opposition, a need to bridge it arises; this is true as regards heaven and earth, man and woman.
This parallel passage from the Baynes translation confirms the I Ching’s central thesis that opposition constitutes the necessary structural ground from which union becomes possible.
, The I Ching or Book of Changes, 1950thesis
The paradoxical nature of God has a like effect on man: it tears him asunder into opposites and delivers him over to a seemingly insoluble conflict.
Jung frames the theological paradox of divinity as the psychological source of the human experience of opposition, which the unconscious seeks to resolve through symbols of the coniunctio oppositorum.
, Psychology and Religion: West and East, 1958thesis
Desiring and being averse are opposites; desiring to , and being averse to -ing, are opposites in relation to the same thing. (3) It happens that the soul desires to , and at the same time is averse to -ing.
Lorenz reconstructs Plato’s argument that the logical impossibility of simultaneous opposition in the soul necessitates the postulation of distinct psychic parts, grounding tripartition in the principle of non-contradiction.
, The Brute Within: Appetitive Desire in Plato and Aristotle, 2006thesis
At the Uranus Opposition at 40, and the Chiron Return approximately age 50… At the Uranus Opposition, we want to break out of those forms because they have become too constricting. This is one of the astrological factors behind the midlife crisis.
Cunningham identifies the Uranus Opposition as the astrological signature of midlife crisis, when the opposition aspect triggers the urge to break free from the established structures of the Saturn Return.
, An Astrological Guide to Self-Awareness, 1982supporting
opposition to the widening of the boundaries of God’s people continues, and here too Luke demonstrates the inevitable triumph of God’s desire to fulfill his saving purpose in all its breadth. The opposition in Acts takes two forms.
Thielman documents opposition in the narrative theology of Acts as a two-fronted resistance — from within and without the early church — that is structurally overcome by divine intervention.
, Theology of the New Testament: A Canonical and Synthetic Approach, 2005supporting
the soul considers, or tries to grasp, the being of opposites
In Plato’s epistemology, the soul’s capacity to grasp opposites marks the boundary between mere sense-perception and genuine cognitive activity requiring the intellect.
, The Brute Within: Appetitive Desire in Plato and Aristotle, 2006supporting
For independent plans there was but little scope, much less for opposition.
Snell notes the historical suppression of political opposition in Rome’s literary culture, illustrating how the term functions in socio-political registers beyond its depth-psychological usage.
, The discovery of the mind; the Greek origins of European, 1953aside