The phrase "ambivalent figure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a person or character that embodies conflicting emotions or attitudes, often in literature or discussions about psychology.
Example: "The protagonist in the novel is an ambivalent figure, torn between loyalty to his family and his desire for freedom."
Alternatives: "conflicted character" or "dual-natured individual".
In turn, he reflects about it all as a courageously ambivalent figure in increasingly absurdist and horrifying circumstances.
Lee's repeated portrayals of black machismo, in films such as Jungle Fever, made him an ambivalent figure for Julien.
It seems appropriate that the plot's major agent of change, the hired assassin Bosola, should be such an ambivalent figure.
The ambivalent figure of Bérenger, so perfectly embodied by Mr. Maggiani, leaves us wrangling with uneasy questions about what constitutes moral strength and weakness.
The mother is an ambivalent figure, both protector and tormentor, throughout Lessing's fiction, reflecting her troubled relationship with her own mother, from whom she was forever in "nervous flight".
The ambivalent figure of Joy Langford as the other woman, who comforts Ms. Silverstein after the slaps by Mr. Ashby, is one of the contrasting elements in the piece.
Radford says that sanitised, domesticated clowns like Bozo and Ronald McDonald obscure the fact that clowns have always been, at best, ambivalent figures.
But unlike, say, the purely malevolent mutants of Hollywood's "It Came From Beneath the Sea" (1955) or "Them!" (1954), the kaiju are ambivalent figures, sometimes blindly destructive, sometimes friendly, effective allies.
France always belonged to the top three countries to accept refugees in recent years, although the IOM ballot showed ambivalent figures of support.
In terms of today's identity politics, his fiction comes out well: Andersen "made no distinction in literature and in life between same-sex and opposite-sex emotional and erotic relationships … the ambivalent (amphibious) figure … is central to his imagination".
You have this vegetating ball of fibrous masses which eventually will form into what Blake calls Urizen, which is a sort of strange, ambivalent God-like figure.
