user23737: A little context to describe what I am looking for and why I am looking for it:
It is my strong intuition that "suffering" is a label that we give to a phenomenon
that, upon deeper inspection, we discover to be an "inner conflict" between
(1) a part of us that craves a particular sensory experience (kāma)
and
(2) a part of us which desires to see things as they actually are (yathabhutañanadassana)
and that the resolution of these inner conflicts
by relinquishing sense-desires
in favor of clear seeing
is the means by which suffering is ended
and that the āsava are the biases
which keep us clinging to sense-desires
until we are strong enough to relinquish them
and that each resolution of an inner conflict of this nature
results in a destruction of the āsava (asavakkhaye ñana)
and that each such destruction brings us closer and closer to full awakening
wherein all āsava have been removed
inner conflicts no longer go unresolved
because avijjā (the choice to ignore uncomfortable truths) has been destroyed
i.e. we no longer respond to dukkha (the arrow in the heart who purpose is to alert us to that the map of the world we have constructed has made a misprediction that should be corrected)
by ignoring evidence that our views are compelling us to make bad decisions
in favor of clinging to sense-desires.
and that this works because
the sensory motor wherein all āsava have been removed
inner conflicts no longer go unresolved
because avijjā (the choice to ignore uncomfortable truths) has been destroyed
i.e. we no longer respond to dukkha (this discomfort of misprediction)
by ignoring evidence that our views are compelling us to make bad decisions.    brain evolved because it enabled beings to respond to sensory experience with moves in the world that improved the probability of gene survival
i.e. the trait of making accurate predictions (saṅkhāra) originally served the master of the zero-sum game of gene-survival (aka "Māra)
but the zero-sum game intensified competition
which created selection pressure for ever more accurate predictions
leading to the point where clinging to the original gene-survival compulsions
actually become an impediment to clear seeing
and that the choice to relinquish this impediment
in favor the welfare of all living beings
was the choice the Buddha made
when he renounced Māra
and attained nibbana.
Although everything is a hypothesis,
and all hypotheses should be considered impermanent (sabbe saṅkhāra annicā),
and all hypothesis are subject to the discomfort of misprediction (sabbe saṅkhāra dukkha),
I have a very high degree of certainty that this hypothesis is correct.
Nevertheless, the "fly in the ointment" is the uncomfortable truth that I am not familiar with a Pali term to represent the concept of an "inner conflict" between these 2 parts.
My best guess is that
(1) I am attributing an incorrect meaning to a term that I already know which represents this concept
or
(2) The term was removed from the canon by the same forces who removed the 4 resolves (adhiṭṭhāna: sacca, pañǹa, cāga, upasama; which described how to actually resolve the unresolved conflict).
I'm hoping that (1) is true and that someone here can point me in the right direction.

user43: You are correct.
The concept of conflict (or clash or mismatch) is subsumed under the concept of dukkha or dukkhata.
If you think about it, there's no suffering distinct from (apart from) conflict. Presence of conflict is the very suffering, and vice versa, suffering is mismatch between "is" and "should". That's why there's no need for a separate term.
Absence of conflict is suchness/tathata.
Practice of the Eightfold Path, culminating in the practice of Jhanas, is all about methodically removing (arresting, preventing) causes of conflict, from coarser to finer, all the way until tathata.
Conflicts range from external social conflicts, to conflict of expectations, to subtle conflict coming from overgeneralizations, reifications, inaccurate models, to implicit conflicts inherent to all conceptual boundaries.
Buddha is called Tathagata - one living in suchness.
Nirvana or Shunyata is the ultimate groundless ground underlying all conceptual boundaries and therefore all conflict.
The Absolute (Nirvana) and The Relative (The world of concepts and conflicts) are actually one and the same.

user10100: In pali, Lola means agitate.
Example, I agitated between doing good to a robber or doing bad to a robber.
From PTS Pali-English dictionary entry on lola:

Lola (Loḷa) Lola (Loḷa) (adj.) [fr. luḷ: see luḷati; cp. Epic &
Classic Sk. lola] wavering, unsteady, agitated; longing, eager, greedy
S iv.111; Sn 22, 922; J i.49 (Buddha -- mātā lolā na hoti), 111, 210,
339 (dhana -- loḷa); ii.319 (˚manussa); iii.7; Pug 65; Nd1 366; Dāvs
iv.44; Miln 300. —alola not greedy, not distracted (by desire),
self-controlled S v.148; Sn 65.
-bhava greediness, covetousness ThA 16.


user471: From PTS Pali-English dictionary search on "agitation":

Āvilatta Āvilatta (nt.) [abstr. fr. āvila] confusion, disturbance, agitation Sn 967; Nd1 488.


Āluḷa Āluḷa (adj. [fr. ā + lul] being in motion, confusion or
agitation, disturbed, agitated J vi.431.


Āloḷa Āloḷa [fr. ā + luḷ, cp. āluḷati & āloḷeti] confusion, uproar,
agitation DhA i.38.


Ubbijjanā Ubbijjanā (f.) [abstr. fr. ubbijjati] agitation, uneasiness DA i.111. Cp. ubbega.


Uddhacca Uddhacca (nt.) [substantivised ger. of ud-dharati, ud + dhṛ, cp. uddhaṭa & uddhata. The BSk. auddhatya shows a strange distortion. BSk. uddhava seems to be also a substitute for uddhacca] over-balancing, agitation, excitement, distraction, flurry


Pakopa Pakopa [pa+kopa] agitation, effervescence, anger, fury Dhs 1060; Vism 235, 236.


Vipphandita Vipphandita (nt.) [pp. of vipphandati] "writhing," twitching, struggle M i.446; S ii.62; — (fig.) in diṭṭhi˚ combd with visūkāyita) "scuffling of opinion" (Mrs. Rh. D.), sceptical agitation, worry & writhing (cp. Dial. i.53) M i.8, 486; S i.123 (here without diṭṭhi˚; the C. expln is "hatthirājavaṇṇa sappavaṇṇ' ādidassa nāni" K.S. i.320); Dhs 381; Pug 22.


Saŋvega Saŋvega [fr. saŋ+vij] agitation, fear, anxiety; thrill, religious emotion (caused by contemplation of the miseries of this world) D iii.214; A i.43; ii.33, 114; S i.197; iii.85; v.130, 133; It 30; Sn 935; J i.138; Nd1 406; Vism 135=KhA 235 (eight objects inducing emotion: birth, old age, illness, death, misery in the apāyas, and the misery caused by saŋsāra in past, present & future stages); Mhvs 1, 4; 23, 62; PvA 1, 22, 32, 39, 76.

From PTS Pali-English dictionary search on "madness":

Ummāda Ummāda [ud + māda] madness, distraction, mental aberration S i.126 (˚ŋ pāpuṇeyya citta -- vikkhepaŋ vā); A ii.80;
iii.119; v.169; Pug 69; PvA 6 (˚patta frantic, out of mind), 94
(˚vāta), 162 (˚patta).


23737: <p>A little context to describe what I am looking for and why I am looking for it:</p>
<p>It is my strong intuition that &quot;suffering&quot; is a label that we give to a phenomenon
that, upon deeper inspection, we discover to be an &quot;inner conflict&quot; between<br />
(1) a part of us that craves a particular sensory experience (kāma)<br />
and<br />
(2) a part of us which desires to see things as they actually are (yathabhutañanadassana)</p>
<p>and that the resolution of these inner conflicts<br />
by relinquishing sense-desires<br />
in favor of clear seeing<br />
is the means by which suffering is ended</p>
<p>and that the āsava are the biases<br />
which keep us clinging to sense-desires<br />
until we are strong enough to relinquish them<br />
and that each resolution of an inner conflict of this nature<br />
results in a destruction of the āsava (asavakkhaye ñana)</p>
<p>and that each such destruction brings us closer and closer to full awakening<br />
wherein all āsava have been removed<br />
inner conflicts no longer go unresolved<br />
because avijjā (the choice to ignore uncomfortable truths) has been destroyed<br />
i.e. we no longer respond to dukkha (the arrow in the heart who purpose is to alert us to that the map of the world we have constructed has made a misprediction that should be corrected)<br />
by ignoring evidence that our views are compelling us to make bad decisions<br />
in favor of clinging to sense-desires.</p>
<p>and that this works because<br />
the sensory motor wherein all āsava have been removed<br />
inner conflicts no longer go unresolved<br />
because avijjā (the choice to ignore uncomfortable truths) has been destroyed<br />
i.e. we no longer respond to dukkha (this discomfort of misprediction)<br />
by ignoring evidence that our views are compelling us to make bad decisions.    brain evolved because it enabled beings to respond to sensory experience with moves in the world that improved the probability of gene survival<br />
i.e. the trait of making accurate predictions (saṅkhāra) originally served the master of the zero-sum game of gene-survival (aka &quot;Māra)<br />
but the zero-sum game intensified competition<br />
which created selection pressure for ever more accurate predictions<br />
leading to the point where clinging to the original gene-survival compulsions<br />
actually become an impediment to clear seeing<br />
and that the choice to relinquish this impediment<br />
in favor the welfare of all living beings<br />
was the choice the Buddha made<br />
when he renounced Māra<br />
and attained nibbana.</p>
<p>Although everything is a hypothesis,<br />
and all hypotheses should be considered impermanent (sabbe saṅkhāra annicā),<br />
and all hypothesis are subject to the discomfort of misprediction (sabbe saṅkhāra dukkha),<br />
I have a very high degree of certainty that this hypothesis is correct.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, the &quot;fly in the ointment&quot; is the uncomfortable truth that I am not familiar with a Pali term to represent the concept of an &quot;inner conflict&quot; between these 2 parts.</p>
<p>My best guess is that<br />
(1) I am attributing an incorrect meaning to a term that I already know which represents this concept<br />
or<br />
(2) The term was removed from the canon by the same forces who removed the 4 resolves (adhiṭṭhāna: sacca, pañǹa, cāga, upasama; which described how to actually resolve the unresolved conflict).</p>
<p>I'm hoping that (1) is true and that someone here can point me in the right direction.</p>
 43: <p>You are correct.</p>
<p>The concept of conflict (or clash or mismatch) is subsumed under the concept of dukkha or dukkhata.</p>
<p>If you think about it, there's no suffering distinct from (apart from) conflict. Presence of conflict is the very suffering, and vice versa, suffering is mismatch between &quot;is&quot; and &quot;should&quot;. That's why there's no need for a separate term.</p>
<p>Absence of conflict is suchness/tathata.</p>
<p>Practice of the Eightfold Path, culminating in the practice of Jhanas, is all about methodically removing (arresting, preventing) causes of conflict, from coarser to finer, all the way until tathata.</p>
<p>Conflicts range from external social conflicts, to conflict of expectations, to subtle conflict coming from overgeneralizations, reifications, inaccurate models, to implicit conflicts inherent to all conceptual boundaries.</p>
<p>Buddha is called Tathagata - one living in suchness.</p>
<p>Nirvana or Shunyata is the ultimate groundless ground underlying all conceptual boundaries and therefore all conflict.</p>
<p>The Absolute (Nirvana) and The Relative (The world of concepts and conflicts) are actually one and the same.</p>
 10100: <p>In pali, Lola means agitate.</p>
<p>Example, I agitated between doing good to a robber or doing bad to a robber.</p>
<p>From PTS Pali-English dictionary entry on <a href="https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/pali_query.py?qs=lola,%20lo%E1%B8%B7a&amp;searchhws=yes&amp;matchtype=exact" rel="nofollow noreferrer">lola</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Lola (Loḷa) Lola (Loḷa) (adj.) [fr. luḷ: see luḷati; cp. Epic &amp;
Classic Sk. lola] wavering, unsteady, agitated; longing, eager, greedy
S iv.111; Sn 22, 922; J i.49 (Buddha -- mātā lolā na hoti), 111, 210,
339 (dhana -- loḷa); ii.319 (˚manussa); iii.7; Pug 65; Nd1 366; Dāvs
iv.44; Miln 300. —alola not greedy, not distracted (by desire),
self-controlled S v.148; Sn 65.
-bhava greediness, covetousness ThA 16.</p>
</blockquote>
 471: <p>From PTS Pali-English dictionary search on &quot;<a href="https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/pali_query.py?qs=agitation&amp;matchtype=default" rel="nofollow noreferrer">agitation</a>&quot;:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Āvilatta Āvilatta (nt.) [abstr. fr. āvila] confusion, disturbance, agitation Sn 967; Nd1 488.</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p>Āluḷa Āluḷa (adj. [fr. ā + lul] being in motion, confusion or
agitation, disturbed, agitated J vi.431.</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p>Āloḷa Āloḷa [fr. ā + luḷ, cp. āluḷati &amp; āloḷeti] confusion, uproar,
agitation DhA i.38.</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p>Ubbijjanā Ubbijjanā (f.) [abstr. fr. ubbijjati] agitation, uneasiness DA i.111. Cp. ubbega.</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p>Uddhacca Uddhacca (nt.) [substantivised ger. of ud-dharati, ud + dhṛ, cp. uddhaṭa &amp; uddhata. The BSk. auddhatya shows a strange distortion. BSk. uddhava seems to be also a substitute for uddhacca] over-balancing, agitation, excitement, distraction, flurry</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p>Pakopa Pakopa [pa+kopa] agitation, effervescence, anger, fury Dhs 1060; Vism 235, 236.</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p>Vipphandita Vipphandita (nt.) [pp. of vipphandati] &quot;writhing,&quot; twitching, struggle M i.446; S ii.62; — (fig.) in diṭṭhi˚ combd with visūkāyita) &quot;scuffling of opinion&quot; (Mrs. Rh. D.), sceptical agitation, worry &amp; writhing (cp. Dial. i.53) M i.8, 486; S i.123 (here without diṭṭhi˚; the C. expln is &quot;hatthirājavaṇṇa sappavaṇṇ' ādidassa nāni&quot; K.S. i.320); Dhs 381; Pug 22.</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p>Saŋvega Saŋvega [fr. saŋ+vij] agitation, fear, anxiety; thrill, religious emotion (caused by contemplation of the miseries of this world) D iii.214; A i.43; ii.33, 114; S i.197; iii.85; v.130, 133; It 30; Sn 935; J i.138; Nd1 406; Vism 135=KhA 235 (eight objects inducing emotion: birth, old age, illness, death, misery in the apāyas, and the misery caused by saŋsāra in past, present &amp; future stages); Mhvs 1, 4; 23, 62; PvA 1, 22, 32, 39, 76.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>From PTS Pali-English dictionary search on &quot;<a href="https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/pali_query.py?qs=madness&amp;matchtype=default" rel="nofollow noreferrer">madness</a>&quot;:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Ummāda Ummāda [ud + māda] madness, distraction, mental aberration S i.126 (˚ŋ pāpuṇeyya citta -- vikkhepaŋ vā); A ii.80;
iii.119; v.169; Pug 69; PvA 6 (˚patta frantic, out of mind), 94
(˚vāta), 162 (˚patta).</p>
</blockquote>
