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‖ peripeteia, -tia|ˌpɛrɪpɪˈtaɪə, -tiːə|
Also anglicized as peripety |pəˈrɪpɪtɪ|, in 8 -ie.
[a. Gr. περιπέτεια a turn right about, a sudden change, esp. that on which the plot of a tragedy hinges, f. περιπετής, lit. ‘falling round’, f. περί around + stem πετ- of πίπτειν to fall. The form peripety is ad. F. péripétie (Vauquelin, 16th c.).]
A sudden change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (in a tragedy, etc., or, by extension, in the actual course of affairs). Also, according to the theory of Jung, the third stage, culmination, or turning point of a dream.
1591Harington Orl. Fur., Apol. Poet. ⁋vij b, They would haue an heroicall Poem (aswell as a Tragedie) to be full of Peripetia. 1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 230 In the peripetia of this drammatical exercitation. 1713Swift Frenzy J. Dennis Wks. 1755 III. i. 143 Here is no peripetia, no change of fortune in the tragedy. 1864Kingsley Rom. & Teut. iv. 119 A strange peripetia for the Amal. 1877Morley Crit. Misc. Ser. ii. 120 It would take a volume to follow out all the peripeteias of the drama. 1960R. F. C. Hull tr. Jung's On Nature of Dreams in Coll. Wks. VIII. 295 The third phase brings the culmination or peripeteia. Here something decisive happens or something changes completely. 1976S. Hynes Auden Generation vii. 193 In that pattern, 1936 is the peripeteia, the point where the action turned.
β1753Adventurer No. 83 ⁋2 A fable is called complex, when it contains both a discovery and a peripetie. 1886Symonds Renaiss. It., Cath. React. (1898) VII. xiv. 256 What peripeties of empire, may we not observe and ponder. 1904Sat. Rev. 23 Jan. 107 By no means..let us have a peripety caused by the casual overhearing of something in the nick of time. 1911Beerbohm Zuleika D. ix. 151 For him to fall in love was a violent peripety, bound to produce a violent upheaval. 1942K. W. Bash tr. Jacobi's Psychol. C. G. Jung iii. 79 Peripetie, which forms the ‘backbone’ of every dream, the weaving of the plot. The intensification of events to a crisis or to a transformation, which may also consist in a catastrophe. 1950Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. XL. 236 Jung goes on to discuss the structure of dreams... He distinguishes..the culmination or peripety, and..the final lysis or solution. 1964M. McLuhan Understanding Media x. 103 So sudden an upsurge of academic training into the marketplace has in it the quality of classical peripety or reversal. |