metastability

metastability
An unstable but potentially long-lived state of a system; for example, a supersaturated solution or an excited atom.

Solomans belief that love is necessarily paradoxical issues from his attempt to define it as what Sartre would call a dialectical metastability. Love must therefore be not a "state of the union but a never ending conflict of pushing away and pulling together." <!


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