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The janusian couple paused long enough to ask where he had been these last days, and Pamir said a few murky words about taking care of family troubles.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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But over the millennia, organic species had cut their own apartments into the walls, including a janusian couple downstream, and upstream, an extended family of harum-scarums.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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For several years, her closest companions were a janusian couple — double organisms where the male was a parasite rooted in his spouse's back.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
mollusque commented on the word janusian
"Janusian thinking"—the capacity to conceive and utilize two or more opposite or contradictory ideas, concepts, or images simultaneously—is discussed in relation to its role in the creative process in art, literature, architecture, music, science, and mathematics. I feel that understanding the psychological factors in creativity should be of importance in the theory and everyday practice of the art of psychotherapy.
--Albert Rothenberg, 1971, "The Process of Janusian Thinking in Creativity", Archives of General Psychiatry 24(3): 195
November 15, 2009
Telofy commented on the word janusian
Thanks you, I love the concept and finally I have a name for it.
Which pronunciation do you native-speakers prefer:
/dʒeɪˈnuʃən/, /dʒeɪˈnuʃiən/, /dʒeɪˈnusiən/ or even /dʒəˈnuʃən/?
November 15, 2009
mollusque commented on the word janusian
I've never heard it pronounced, but I'd follow the pattern of Venusian.
November 15, 2009
bilby commented on the word janusian
Although in the case of Venusian, you have to give some note to the fact that the city's name was once Venusia, now Venezia.
November 16, 2009
fbharjo commented on the word janusian
'a part is a whole is a part'... Arthur Koestler's Act of Creation 1964 p 467-8... 'the 'Janus principle' in organic hierarchies.' see holarchy
November 16, 2009
Telofy commented on the word janusian
And that Venusian has lots of different pronunciations. In fact I used this very word to copy in the IPA. ;-)
November 16, 2009