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Enantiodromia (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Jung's word for the way any extreme, once reached, starts turning into its own opposite.

Enantiodromia (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the conversion of a thing into its opposite: every extreme secretly contains its opposite, and the best is most threatened by devilish perversion just because it has done most to suppress evil.

Enantiodromia (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the “running counter” by which every extreme, one-sided tendency in time builds up an equally powerful opposite that finally breaks through — Saul becomes Paul.

Enantiodromia (n.) mocks ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the optimist's faith that a good state will be followed by a better: the man of blameless conscience and acknowledged principles is the one who makes a pact with Behemoth.

Enantiodromia (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Heraclitus' law that sooner or later everything runs into its opposite — the rational culture into the irrational devastation of culture.

Enantiodromia (n.) can ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠overturn a life: the pious churchwarden grew darker and more intolerant from forty until at fifty-five he sat up in bed and said 'Now at last I've got it! I'm just a plain rascal' — and spent his last years in riotous living.

Enantiodromia (n.) turns ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the villainous old man into the bridegroom of the soul — hinting at a secret inner relation of evil to good and vice versa.

Enantiodromia (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the terrible law of blind contingency — everything runs toward its opposite, building and destroying successively tipping the scales.

Enantiodromia (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the law by which evil turns to good and what seemed good keeps evil alive — the archdemon of egoism leading to the royal road.

Enantiodromia (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the law that the end of one phase is the beginning of its opposite: yang at its highest point changes into yin.

Enantiodromia (n.) turns ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the ever deeper descent into the unconscious suddenly into illumination from above, as the nigredo gives way to the albedo.

Enantiodromia (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the catastrophic swing into the opposite that follows when a fanatical will resists the unconscious compensation of its one-sidedness.