Revue CONFLUENCE : Sciences & Humanités 2022/2 No 2
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Paradoxical tensions and the variational principle

Pages 35 to 51

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  • DEMONGEOT, Jacques,
  • AUBOURG, Timothée
  • and GALLI CARMINATI, Giuliana,
2022. Paradoxical tensions and the variational principle. Revue CONFLUENCE : Sciences & Humanités, 2022/2 No 2, p.35-51. DOI : 10.3917/confl.002.0035. URL : https://shs.cairn.info/journal-confluence-2022-2-page-35?lang=en.
  • Demongeot, Jacques.,
  • et al.
« Paradoxical tensions and the variational principle ». Revue CONFLUENCE : Sciences & Humanités, 2022/2 No 2, 2022. p.35-51. CAIRN.INFO, shs.cairn.info/journal-confluence-2022-2-page-35?lang=en.
  • Demongeot, J.,
  • Aubourg, T.
  • and Galli Carminati, G.
(2022). Paradoxical Tensions and the Variational Principle. Revue CONFLUENCE : Sciences & Humanités, No 2(2), 35-51. https://doi.org/10.3917/confl.002.0035.

https://doi.org/10.3917/confl.002.0035

Abstract
Authors

Cite this article

  • Demongeot, J.,
  • Aubourg, T.
  • and Galli Carminati, G.
(2022). Paradoxical Tensions and the Variational Principle. Revue CONFLUENCE : Sciences & Humanités, No 2(2), 35-51. https://doi.org/10.3917/confl.002.0035.
  • Demongeot, Jacques.,
  • et al.
« Paradoxical tensions and the variational principle ». Revue CONFLUENCE : Sciences & Humanités, 2022/2 No 2, 2022. p.35-51. CAIRN.INFO, shs.cairn.info/journal-confluence-2022-2-page-35?lang=en.
  • DEMONGEOT, Jacques,
  • AUBOURG, Timothée
  • and GALLI CARMINATI, Giuliana,
2022. Paradoxical tensions and the variational principle. Revue CONFLUENCE : Sciences & Humanités, 2022/2 No 2, p.35-51. DOI : 10.3917/confl.002.0035. URL : https://shs.cairn.info/journal-confluence-2022-2-page-35?lang=en.

https://doi.org/10.3917/confl.002.0035

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English

This article expounds a series of examples of paradoxical tensions taken from different fields: love for the psyche, immortality for medicine, the principle of least action for morphogenesis and physics, and finally social tension for sociology. In all of these examples, we find the presence of an internal opposition between two contradictory forces (psychic, biological, physical, or social), which are balanced at their optimum of coexistence.

  • principle of least action
  • optimum balance
  • paradoxical tensions
  • archetypes

Publisher keywords: archetypes, optimum balance, paradoxical tensions, principle of least action

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https://doi.org/10.3917/confl.002.0035