"ambivalent relation" is a valid phrase in written English, and can be used to refer to a relationship that involves both positive and negative feelings.
For example, you could say "Joe has an ambivalent relation with his mother, full of love and resentment at the same time."
This results in a particularly ambivalent relation between emotions and morality.
Baudrillard thus had an ambivalent relation to classical Marxism by the early 1970s.
The confusion of borders, the ambivalent relation to maternal space at the outskirts of narcissism, also motivates melancholia.
Formed in ambivalent relation to others, sexuality and sexual identity permeate the bonds of civilization and ramify throughout all social relations.
Before the course began, the young women experienced a conflicting and ambivalent relation to their bodies.
14 There is an ambivalent relation between our perspective and the conceptualisations of the women as 'moral pioneers' who are in different ways mapping new and unknown terrain.
His life and political views could easily serve as a precursor to Afghanistan's ambivalent relations with the West today.
It also shows how persons removed from the centers of power and learning ventured in novel directions, modifying in their own way Europe's troubled and ambivalent relations with other "marginal" peoples.
ZOO Frederick Wiseman's 1993 documentary about Miami's MetroZoo filters out the cuteness to show both the life of the institution and the tense and ambivalent relations between humans and the captive species.
If you do get in, however, the FCO added, you might want to raise the issue of Paul Martin – a diplomatic conceit that shows once again the ambivalent relations western governments have with Hamas.
The Sextants of Beijing: Global Currents in Chinese History, by Joanna Waley-Cohen (Norton, $14.95), surveys the history of China's ambivalent relations with the outside world and seeks to shatter the myth that the nation traditionally has been deeply isolationist.
