internal conflicts
Battles within oneself
Internal conflicts are struggles within a person's mind—competing desires, values, or impulses that pull in different directions: She faced internal conflicts about leaving her hometown.
The term also describes strife within a group or organization rather than with outside forces: The party's internal conflicts weakened its election chances.
In literary analysis, internal conflict refers to a character's psychological struggle, contrasted with external conflict against other characters or circumstances.
- infightingRivalry within one organization
- internecineMutually ruinous conflict
- house dividedHome torn by conflict
- contradictionsLogically incompatible assertions
- civil warDomestic armed conflict
moral dilemma · ambivalence · existential crisis · dispute · self-doubt · cognitive dissonance · strife · schism · indecision · second guessing · ethical ambiguity · guilt · soul searching · anxiety · political instability · rift · polarity · ethnic tensions
- psychoanalysisFreud, id, ego, unconscious, Sigmund Freud
- contradictionsparadox, oxymoron, contradiction, paradoxes, oxymorons
internal conflictsinner peace
Mental and emotional tranquility
peace of mind · mental clarity · self-integration · inner tranquility · equanimity
internal, internals, internally, intern, interns, interned, interning, internship, internships