The phrase 'dialectical relationship' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the relationship between two groups or parties who have different opinions or beliefs and who must communicate to come to a consensus. For example, "The president and opposition leader have maintained a dialectical relationship throughout their negotiations."
Professor Post said the court has a "dialectical relationship with the mood of the country" -- at different times playing the role of leader, consolidator or follower.
Sembène is more interested in finding a dialectical relationship between the two cultures than in an uncritical nostalgia for pre-colonial pure African-ness".
"In the 1920's, there is a tension or dialectical relationship between the powerful modernizing forces of new technology and the rise of a kind of fundamentalist reaction to it," Mr. Czitrom said.
He describes, subtly and with suggestive insight, the development of acting away from rhetoric towards what Thomas Heywood called "personation" (individual characterisation), and how Shakespeare's art and the art of acting developed in a dialectical relationship to each other.
Modern philosophy has, by and large, only gradually emancipated itself from this theological origin, but this emancipation also has taken place in a manner that has retained the dialectical relationship of theology and philosophy.
A more respectful treatment might suggest that King's understanding of just-war theory, his familiarity with the dialectical relationship between security and liberty, and his creative imagination could assist us in formulating a cogent response to radical Islam's critique of modernity.
Importantly, Sewell (1997) compared his own position on theories of culture to the work of Clifford Geertz (1973) and drew our attention to the dialectical relationships between patterns and contradictions as well as schemas and practices.
Vaguely following Hegelian notions of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis, Inoue described the unfolding of Japanese philosophy by explaining the dialectical relationships of three major philosophical schools: the Zhu Xi School, the Wang Yangming School, and the School of Ancient Learning.
So instead of a theory based on self/non-self distinctions, our understanding of the immune system might be built on a schema that fully captures the dynamic and dialectical relationships characterizing an organism engaged in the complex internal and external environments constituted by friend and foe.
"If and when this dialectical (and hence conflictual) relationship ceases must come to an end the capacity to create" (Lefebvre 1991, p. 116).
(Contrast the dialectical model of the relationship between perception and feeling that is envisaged in Alvin Plantinga's discussion of Jonathan Edwards: Plantinga 2000, pp. 301 303).
