“Enantiodromia” is a Greek word that means “a running counter to”. The philosopher Heraclitus used it to refer to the tendency of one thing to turn into its opposite. In Jung’s typology, in practice, it’s what we could call a change of attitude, or a reversal of type. This can happen in a number of ways and for a number of different reasons: But, in this article, we’ll focus on what happens when the unconscious personality (centred around the inferior function) invades and overturns the conscious one (centred around the dominant). This is not unlike “The Grip” of contemporary MBTI discussions: However, the way it progresses is a bit more elaborate. Essentially, Enantiodromia consists of A) overvaluing the dominant function and attitude – which I’ve called Hubris, a word meaning pride and defiance of the gods – followed by B) an overwhelming invasion of consciousness by the inferior function-attitude – which I’ve called Nemesis, meaning divine retribution.
Jung’s Enantiodromia focuses on a certain chronology, an order of events. It goes something like this:
Development of a one-sided consciousness: the dominant function-attitude is overvalued, and everything else is suppressed.
Strengthening of the inferior function-attitude in the unconscious: “As above, so below.”
Inhibition of conscious performance by the inferior function-attitude.
Total breakthrough: the inferior function-attitude overtakes consciousness, resulting in a kind of nervous breakdown.
This violent psychological “coup” ideally rebalances the individual’s psyche.
In past ages, we believed that gods and angels would regularly interfere in our lives, or that demons would possess us against our conscious will. An uncharacteristic bout of rage was the work of Ares; hopelessly falling in love was the work of Aphrodite. Now, we call these things influences from the unconscious. With this in mind, we can make allegories for the process of Enantiodromia using elements of mythology and religious stories; wherein the divine principle, the deity, is the unconscious; and the heroic principle, the protagonist, is consciousness. Two stand out:
The first allegory is Hubris and Nemesis, terms from Greek tragedy. Hubris is the sin of pride in the face of the gods. The prime example is of Icarus flying too close to the sun, his brashness overcoming the warnings of his father Daedalus. The image of a falling angel might also remind us of Lucifer, cast down from heaven, also for the sin of Hubris or pride in the face of God. Nemesis is the divine retribution, the goddess whose whole purpose was to enact punishment on the people who succumbed to Hubris.
The second allegory is the Deluge. The Deluge is an almost universal myth, in which a god floods the earth and its people to purify it. In the Judeo-Christian tradition, this is the story of Noah’s Ark. Humanity is corrupt and has sinned against God, so He floods the earth. He uses Noah as a kind of hard reset: the image of the Ark making landfall at the tip of a mountain, surrounded by ocean, is representative of the new beginning of consciousness emerging from the turmoil of the unconscious.
The goal of this process is to regulate and rebalance the psyche. It can’t operate properly when it’s cut off from itself: when consciousness and unconsciousness stand in stark opposition. When the inferior function-attitude invades consciousness, it destabilises and tears down the one-sided attitude: eventually replacing it with a new conscious attitude that, ideally, is more open and receptive to compensation from the inferior functions.
I’d point you to my Jung Abridged series, where each type description includes a rough picture of what happens when the type succumbs to Hubris, and is subsequently overcome by Nemesis. However, I’ll also include a brief chart here:
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I apologize.
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This one?
Oh, Charles. The hubris. Honey. You had to know this was a possibility. Why would you tempt Apollo like that.
I love how we don’t even need Apollo to be captioned, it’s just “he’s holding a dodgeball and looks Greek statue, of COURSE it’s Apollo delivering the gift of prophecy unto unsuspecting tumblr users”
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Self-fulfilling prophecy
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Here’s a picture of a blue poison dart frog.
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Okay, lots of folks asking “INSTAGRAM DOES THAT!?”
And yes, it does:
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Kaeru the frog from Poco’s Udon World
Pain.
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The goddess, Judgement, favours someone learning from adversity. But I shall hear of what will be, after it comes into being: Before then, I leave it, otherwise, it is the same as a premature grieving. Aeschylus: Agamemnon, 250-254
..the culture of ἀρετή is, in essence, the education of discovering and knowing, intellectually and personally, that noble balance between our natural human tendency to commit ὕβρις - to go beyond the respectful, noble, limits of behaviour - and the necessity of learning the hard way, from πάθει μάθος, from direct personal experience. Δίκα is this balance; a balance manifest in us - or which can be manifest in us - through thoughtful reasoning, that is, by a well-balanced, fair, noble, personal judgement.
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Let’s talk about how hubris is notWei Wuxian’s fatal flaw.
I am very, very tired of this take.
Hubris is the fatal flaw of many a hero throughout history. The hero thinks of himself better than everyone, has a high self-confidence bordering on arrogance, and finally, it leads to his downfall.
Those stories are indeed an amazing exploration of human arrogance. But MDZS is not such a story. WWX is not such a hero.
Perhaps people are misled because WWX is not a character afflicted with self-esteem issues (whatever CQL may choose to portray or popular fanon may claim). He is completely confident in his actions, assured in his competence, secure in his endurance. He does not doubt his morals, he is righteous and brilliant and competent.
This is confused with arrogance, especially because much like Gui Dao, his so-called ‘arrogance’ is often called the reason for his downfall. And until the very moment of revelation, MXTX gives us scenes that are out of context to give us the impression that WWX’s downfall was his own fault.
I have said this before, I will say it again, I will say it a thousand times. WWX’s demise was the punishment the society forced upon him for having the audacity to stand up against cruelty. For having the audacity to do the right thing when the world was drunk on power and hatred and vengeance and passivity.
Now then. About Hubris.
“Not everything was because of his cultivation path. Wei WuXian’s personality is quite immoral. One’s deeds will be paid, one way or another; what goes around always comes around.”
We have this in the prologue, which, as we all know, are rumours surrounding WWX that are systematically decried throughout the book.
A moment that WWX’s apparent arrogance is shown to us is during the empathy with NMJ. His perceived arrogance is clearly shown as a mask when WWX himself says that he was joking with JC as he walks away. However, after this, he has a fight with JZX, a fight that at that particular time, seems uncalled for. JZX inquires about JYL, and WWX does not care for it. Out of context, this seems like WWX is making trouble for no reason.
But later, during Phoenix Mt. Hunt, we find out that JZX’s last interaction with JYL ended with her sobbing until she almost couldn’t breathe. That JYL was content to stay far, far away from him after the soup incident. WWX’s anger makes far more sense, especially because JYL is described as someone who very rarely cries.
Fanon about WWX’s 'hubris’ is almost inseparable from his use of Gui Dao, or perhaps, more specifically, his control over it.
From the moment he comes back from the Burial Mounds, commanding resentment, LWJ confronts him about his control over it.
Lan WangJi, “Some things you cannot be able to control at all.”
Displeasure flashed across Wei WuXian’s face, “Of course, I can control it.“
An important thing to realise about this moment I feel, is that when LWJ says this, WWX is just a few days out of the Burial Mounds. WWX knows he can control Gui Dao - it’s not arrogance, its confidence built on the fact that had he not been able to do so, he would not have survived the Burial Mounds. LWJ is questioning his control, and WWX’s anger, aside from distrust from the man he held in high regard and was so fond of, is very likely to have stemmed from his time in the Burial Mounds being very, very fresh in his mind.
Later, at two more instances, the two being Yunmeng meet and Yiling meet, LWJ expresses similar concerns, and WWX again affirms that he knows his own powers and can control it.
Now the Hubris caused WWX’s downfall fanon obviously holds up two specific moments as the moments where his Hubris comes into play. JZX death and JYL being injured.
But when we think about the two instances, in fact, they are two moments that show us that WWX in fact does know his cultivation best.
First and foremost, the two instances are most notably, moments when WWX is in mortal danger, surrounded by people who want him dead, being attacked by them, and under enormousstress. In QQP, there are 300 archers. In Nightless city, 3000 cultivators wish to kill him and then slaughter the innocents he protected. Both are moments where he is vulnerable and very, veryalone.
Don’t for a moment forget that WWX fought in a war. Instincts like that do not disappear. Similarly, and more importantly, WWX was in a place akin to hell for 3 months, surrounded, helpless, in mortal danger.
In QQP, WWX tells JZX to stay back. I can’t understand how people read that and not understand that WWX is well aware of his own control. He tells JZX to stay away. JZX, the Enormous Idiot that he is, doesn’t. What he does do, is lunge at WWX. When WWX is being attacked from all sides, when he is focused on protecting himself and has already told him to stay away.
In a similar vein, WWX absolutely has no intention to hold back at Nightless City. He has been confronted with the stark reality that the Righteous Cultivation Sects would stop at nothing to kill the Wens, to see him dead. He is shot, and he himself is filled with anger and rage. However, the moment JYL appears on the battlefield, he leaves the roof, fearing for her safety. He knows that his cultivation is volatile at the time, surrounded by danger as he is.
It is enormous control he shows to calm down in those situations and calm the corpses, all at JYL’s request. It is undoubtedly stemming from his concern for her, his want for her to be safe, but it shows that WWX, can, in fact, control his cultivation because he is shown doing it in a circumstance of immensepressure.
It is interesting to note that post 13 years, WWX still uses Gui Dao, and LWJ, with 13 years to grow and having understood better, never questions him on his control over it. But this is very easily forgotten about - and I absolutely blame CQL for demonizing resentful energy and actually making WWX’s confidence in his cultivation seem like arrogance and pride.
Making WWX and his Hubris the scapegoat is a very easy excuse to make for the Cultivation World. But it is a severe injustice to the very strenuous circumstances he is under, as well as the trauma he has gone through.
Can WWX bear the weight of the responsibilities he takes on because of how morally upright he is? Yes. But even he buckles under the pressure when the world turns against him. This is why things are so different post his resurrection because he is not aloneanymore. He has someone who stands by his side, no matter what the crowd says. He has Lan Wangji, who supports him, who stands by him, and Wei Wuxian knows Lan Wangji is there. He has a guardian, a protection he has never, ever had before.
WWX’s fatal flaw is not Hubris. His demise is not the making of his Arrogance. His death was a tragedy precisely because he was punished for doing the right thing.
James Pradier (1790-1852) “Hurt Niobid” (1822) Marble Neoclassical Located in the Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
In Greek mythology, the Niobids were the children of Amphion of Thebes and Niobe, slain by Apollo and Artemis because Niobe had boastfully compared her greater number of children with those of Leto, Apollo’s and Artemis’ mother; this is a classic example of hubris.
im about to SCREAM– i was looking at twst videos on yt and i found out someone made an azul ashengrotto singing king by kanaria video AND IT SOUNDS SO GOOD !! CURRENTLY NOT OKAY ! TRAU HAS TAKEN A CRITICAL HIT SOBSSS STUPID TAKO MAN UGGHHSHDHDJDJ
here i am! on the other end of the spectrum listening to fanmade voicebanks of the boys instead of fan-cv!
okok so i did say i will compile to u a list of my favs but also i severely underestimated how many songs i’ve hoarded so uh i guess, prepare yourself and also i’m sorry i’m so unwell for these shifty fish guys
so uh, under the cut ♥ loooooooonggggggggg post ahead wow
with the song, i will also include the name of the original song and the producer, that way u can check em out if interested ♥♥
夢喰い白黒バク (yumekui shirokuro baku) / official english: dream-eating monochrome baku / nem (i placidly remembered this song while playing thru book 3 because i thought it fit octatrio pretty well since in the song, the dream-eating baku would eat all your bad dreams for a price. glad to know i’m not the only one )
脱獄(datsugoku) / official english: jailbreak/ neru (ihighly recommendchecking out the og if you haven’t yet, it’s so??? anyway the first time i saw it it gave me feels. i can also see this song fitting a really angsty adeuce pv)
垂直落下 (suichoku rakka) / official english: vertical fall / kasamura toota (love the vibe of this cover, and i’m partial to any song that was originally voiced by kagamine rin/len seeing as they’re my fav voicebanks)
アクアリウム (aquarium) / kihee (banger, the song i’m currently playing on loop while i work until i finally get sick of it. we’ll see how long it’ll take. maybe 5 days? songs usually average that much for me.)
深海少女 (shinkai shoujo) / official english: deep sea girl / yuuyu-p (a song i straight up have in my azul playlist so i was thrilled that there was an azul cover of it! our brains!)
this song literallyhas no name. if you find the video on youtube, there is quite literally no title on the video, and the poster’s name is also blank. anyway here it is ♥
キュートなカノジョ (cute na kanojo) / syudou (banger, tbh i’ve been a bit obsessed with syudou’s music because a few of them are featured in proseka and it was a pipeline into looking for more of their stuff hahaha)
劣等上等 (rettou joutou) / literal translation: inferiority superiority / official english: bring it on / giga-p (ace + deuce) (obsessed with this song because of proseka)
ギラギラ (gira gira) / ado (vil) (personally i associated this with azul because of the lyrics and the whole, he has body image issues. but i think it works either way haha)
not covers, but the fanmade pv is so nice that i think you should look at it too
1.elect / niki (this animation is so smooth i’m putting it in preview mode, please look at it and go absolutely mental with me. i know that it’s probably rotoscoped, but even then it’s still very impressive imo)
2. 花が落ちたので、(hana ga ochita no de,) / english: the flowers have fallen, so / hihumi (this pv HURT me so i think you should look at it too. if i had to take a beating right in the feels, you should too)
4. ツギハギスタッカート (tsugihagi staccato) / english: patchwork staccato / toa (ilove flipnote style animations, but also this one also hurt me so i’m hurting you too. there is a pattern with jade content and idk how i feel about it hahaha)
5.ビターチョコデコレーション (bitter choco decoration) / syudou (i like the pv)
and that’s all in my list, happy listening ♥
after blasting your youtube with this many twisted wonderland fanmade voicebank covers, i would think your algorithm gets the idea and starts feeding you other twst voicebank covers lol eventually you can find other songs that are perhaps more your style lol (and not so octatrio centric…)
