Ambition tendency

As ambitendency (of lat. Ambo "both," and tendere "clamp") the presence of a simultaneously acting, opposite will and drive pulses is referred to. This can lead to a complete blockage or a change from restlessness and paralysis, started movements are interrupted and go directly into the counter-movement. The ambitendency represents the physical counterpart to the ambivalence . There are close connections with the catalepsy and the negativism .