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The author considers that the term ambivalence is used too loosely
and should be restricted to the object, the corresponding condition in the subject being more accurately termed ambitendence. Objects in the environment which are not ambivalent could appear so to the ambitendent person, as a result of many unsolved conflicts in the past about genuinely ambivalent objects.