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bond that no position can be established or even thought of without its corresponding negation”
(206 ). So the paradox of the containment-freedom polarity may be seen as holding containment
and freedom together while also keeping them apart.
5.5 Containment-freedom polarity
As the research has progressed containment-freedom has become the overall polarity which
encompasses the other categories. It holds the polarity and the paradox together by incorporating
both movement and stillness. It holds both containment and freedom, Beauty and the Beast
keeping them apart and linking them together so that their split provides clarification; while
being held together they become supportive (Twachtmann and Daniell 1997). Beauty may never
live fully without the Beast who she needs to protect her yet the Beast cannot live fully without
Beauty who he needs to tame his wildness. In the same way internal containment may never
appear to meet internal freedom yet freedom cannot exist without containment anymore than
containment can exist without freedom.
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