Ambivalence

Davis conducted a study about Social Media and experiential ambivalence, in which she approaches the debate from an experimental perspective, evaluating the stories that people have told her about their relation to technology. Her qualitative study looks at the participant’s subjective experiences with social media, and how it influences them in their interpersonal communication and personal lives. She suggests that technological ambivalence is neither dystopic or utopic, but ambivalent.…

attitude is inevitable in most individuals struggling to address unhealthy lifestyles and the behaviors that led to undesirable outcomes. Motivational Interviewing is different from other approaches when dealing with a client’s ambivalence towards change in that it emphasizes ambivalence issues through the use of reflective and summative dialog (Matulich, 2013). Instead of presenting reasonable and logical arguments as to why behavioral change is necessary for the client which could create more…

case. One of the reasons is that exploring and resolving ambivalence is the emphasis of the MI approach. It is clear that Nancy’s ambivalence affecting her to living a healthy and fulfilling life. Obviously, the obstacles that are blocking the development of her spiritual life tie to her sexual abuse, her history of multiple addictions, her failed relationships, and her career problems as she mentioned in the first session. The ambivalence is that on the one hand she says she had been delivered…

to be filled with contradictions. The overall structure of the poem also has an immense impact on the portrayal of the meaning of the poem. The use of the Petrarchan form and the Shakespearian rhyme scheme also makes it easier to comprehend the ambivalence towards love. That brings up the following question, does the speaker simply have a change of heart by the end of the poem? Or is had she always had these…

the idea of colonial ‘hybridity’. Bhabha presents ‘hybridity’ as a reimagining of a term that previously had been used to “imply that different races were different species” and instead argues for a new imagining of ‘hybridity’: a production of ambivalence and the means through which the colonise may defy their subjugation. He proposes that hybridity can therefore be seen as a form of non-oppositional resistance, as it ambivalent nature undermines “the very basis on which imperialist and…

immediate surroundings while others are resistant to such changes. In East goes West, several attempts are being made to form relationships. Evidently, some of the relationships work successfully while others are not. This nature of things brings about ambivalence in the lives of characters, which leads to Chungpa Han’s most popular quote: “Love sincerely…paper sincerely…which shall life take? Both in one man are very hard to find.” (361). This essay presents an analysis of how characters, in…

introduced to an unfamiliar view of them that is against her prior knowledge that was influenced by the English colonist. A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration by Mary Rowlandson expresses two contradicting views of the Indians that shows Mary’s ambivalence. English colonist began to settle in the native Indian territory, causing hostility between the two. The colonist used land encroachment, racist treatment and execution of tribe leaders to…

The social life of a human being is characterized by social interactions. These social interactions are associated with emotions such as love and hate and are the building blocks for social structure (Anderson, Margaret, Taylor 76). There are several existing theories with respect to the biological and psychoanalytical aspects of love and hate. I will be specifically analyzing theories regarding the psychoanalytical aspect. A couple of interpretations that stand out are Freud, Melanie Klein, Ian…

In addition, motivational interviewing can be used as a stand alone therapy (Mason, 2009). Another interesting facet of motivational interviewing is the fact that the client is entirely responsible for opening up and working through their ambivalence and their continuous progress. The counselor helps by getting the client to examine both the pros and cons of changing or not changing their behavior. The next interesting facet is that the counselor informs the client of the various…

a heatedly debated topic in contemporary literary criticism. This issue is especially explored in Sophoclean criticism in light of the tragic ambivalence which is well known in Sophoclean study. Rich scholarly contributions to dramatic irony were made in the past decades and the debate over the meaning of dramatic irony and its relation to tragic ambivalence is still under discussion. In the debate, scholars’ strong interest in Sophoclean language as a media to interpret Sophoclean strategy of…