I was talking with my therapist about my bipolarity and what synergizing these opposites would look like. Is there something beyond "the muddled middle" which can feel dull, de-vitatlized. But not the frightening disconnected thrall of hypomania. As we talked I realized we were discussing these opposites in purely pathological terms (hypomania / depression or grandiosity/defeat, etc.)  

I wondered if there's another axis of for the continuum which imagines these as temperamental or character assets that can be harnessed? I'm drawing on dialectical behavior therapy ideas here as well as James Hillman's ideas about depression.