alt Hacker NewsThis antinomical understanding (contradictory opposites that are both true) has its origins in Kant's work[0], which was of course picked up by Freud, consciously or not.
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canjobear • today at 7:32 AM
I’m pretty sure the idea that things can be good in some ways and bad in other ways came way before Kant.
This may be of interest to you, a few years before Kant with “Syādvāda” going beyond the binary implied by contradiction alone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anekantavada