"inner contradiction" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation or concept where two ideas or aspects oppose each other or contradict each other, but both are part of the same entity. For example, "The author's message was muddled by an inner contradiction between the main idea and several of the examples he used."
Mayor David Dinkins's stand on racial issues, though well meaning, hides a fatal inner contradiction.
Many say they came for the good air and cheap housing, but they are also living an inner contradiction.
Specifically, we consider the mass starvation that accompanied the genocide as a structure of violence; we forward the argument that the rationing of food constitutes a calculated yet contradictory policy, namely that food rations represent in material form an inner contradiction of fostering life and disallowing life.
In closing, I note that I have made no reference to religion but only brought out the inner contradiction of Darwinism.
What we encounter in such plays, Hegel maintains, is "an infinite light-heartedness and confidence felt by someone raised altogether above his own inner contradiction and not bitter or miserable in it at all: this is the bliss and ease of a man who, being sure of himself, can bear the frustration of his aims and achievements" (Aesthetics, 2: 1200).
The "inevitable" tendency of liberalism to collapse into fascism "can be derived, apart from any economic causes, from the inner contradiction between the subjectivist principle of self-interest and the idea of reason that it is supposed to express" (Horkheimer 1987, 21).
Architecture at the Edge of Everything Else investigates the inner contradictions tangling and obscuring architectural discourse.
It was here that the terms of his inner contradictions found their different and lasting shape.
Painting these inner contradictions, not just a linear profile -- that's the hallmark of good intelligence.
Helsinki: Orienta-Konsultit Oy) four levels of inner contradictions in activity systems analysis.
He must be able to pause and consider his own character, his desires, his inhibitions and values, his inner contradictions.
