ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Homi Bhabha adapted this term into colonial discourse theory and believed that the term ‘ambivalence’ describes the complex mix of attraction and repulsion that characterizes the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized.

Detailed explanation-2: -Adapted into colonial discourse theory by Homi K Bhabha, it describes the complex mix of attraction and repulsion that characterizes the relationship between colonizer and colonized. The relationship is ambivalent because the colonized subject is never simply and completely opposed to the colonizer.

Detailed explanation-3: -ambivalence: the ambiguous way in which colonizer and colonized regard one another. The colonizer often regards the colonized as both inferior yet exotically other, while the colonized regards the colonizer as both enviable yet corrupt. In a context of hybridity, this often produces a mixed sense of blessing and curse.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ambivalence. The idea of ambivalence sees culture as consisting of opposing perceptions and dimensions. Bhabha claims that this ambivalence-this duality that presents a split in the identity of the colonized other-allows for beings who are a hybrid of their own cultural identity and the colonizer’s cultural identity.

Detailed explanation-5: -The concept of ambivalence was introduced into psychiatric parlance by Eugen Bleuler, who used it in print for the first time in his 1910 article Vortrag über Ambivalenz. Bleuler distinguished three main types of ambivalence: volitional, intellectual, and emotional.