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Enantiodromia vs Peripeteia - What's the difference?

enantiodromia | peripeteia |

As nouns the difference between enantiodromia and peripeteia

is that enantiodromia is the principle whereby the superabundance of one force inevitably produces its opposite, as with physical equilibrium while peripeteia is a sudden reversal of fortune as a plot point in classical tragedy; hence, any sudden change in circumstances; a crisis.

enantiodromia

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The principle whereby the superabundance of one force inevitably produces its opposite, as with physical equilibrium.

    • peripeteia

    English

    Alternative forms

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    Noun

  • A sudden reversal of fortune as a plot point in Classical tragedy; hence, any sudden change in circumstances; a crisis.
  • *1965 , (John Fowles), The Magus :
  • *:Once more I was a man in a myth, incapable of understanding it, but somehow aware that understanding it meant it must continue, however sinister its peripeteia .
  • *1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review books 2006, p. 167:
  • *:They were to bestride the Algerian scene like demigods until the tragic peripeteia of 1961 [...].
  • (psychoanalysis)