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John Steinbeck’s Sweet Thursday is remarkably ambivalent in terms of the theme and the artistry. And also Carl Jung’s psychology has so many dualistic concepts—persona and collective, conscious and unconscious, hero and shadow, anima and animus, neurosis and psychosis. Based on this relationship between psychology and literature, this paper tries a new research which scholars have covered: to introduce the concept of ambivalence, meaning ambivalent dualism as a human psychological attribute; observe the core theory of Carl Jung’s psychology; illuminate the appearances of ambivalence of Sweet Thursday roughly in order of the plot; and criticize the textual evidences of ambivalence on the basis of an analytical psychology. Lastly, this paper wishes to be a catalyst for answering the question of what a human being.