double bind

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A dilemma in which someone receives contradictory instructions and cannot act on either.
    — She is deciding, right then and there, if she wants to be seen naked on the internet, forever, an object of desire as well as derision. […] In a sense, as Angel notes, the scene dramatizes “the double bind in which women exist: that saying no may be difficult, but so too is saying yes.”

词形变化

double binds plural

词源

Coined by English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist Gregory Bateson.
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