0 a difficult situation in which, whatever action you decide to take, you cannot escape unpleasant results:
1 a difficult situation in which, whatever action you take, you cannot escape unpleasant results:
Samuel and his few remaining followers were caught in a double bind.
Boyle's response to this double bind was to develop a new style of writing.
My first well-remembered intentional use of the double bind occurred in early boyhood.
Ngg, she notes, is caught in a double bind bound by his desires to reach a global audience and to write to a subaltern language.
We thus encounter an inescapable double bind in our attempts to read the significance of ostensible attempts at remembrance.
Some officials argued that rent controls caught landlords in a double bind.
They were caught in a double bind of their own making.
So we find ourselves in a double bind.
