Possession vs Prosopopesis - What's the difference?
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Control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights.
Something that is owned.
Ownership]]; [[take, taking, holding, keeping something as one's own.
A territory under the rule of another country.
The condition or affliction of being possessed by a demon or other supernatural entity.
* Shakespeare
(sports) Control of the ball; the opportunity to be on the offensive.
* {{quote-news
, year=2010
, date=December 29
, author=Chris Whyatt
, title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton
, work=BBC
(linguistics) A syntactic relationship between two nouns or nominals that may be used to indicate ownership.
(parapsychology, rare) A sudden and profound change of an individual's personality, whether spontaneous or induced e.g. in hypnosis.
* {{quote-journal, passage=Mr. Soal declares that while the presence of certain persons is favorable to his duplication of personality and while some persons actually aid the prosopopesis , others have an inhibitive influence.
, publisher=American Society for Psychical Research
, page=381
, title=Psychic research, Volume 23
, year=1929}}
* {{quote-book, passage=Later, French psychical researcher René Sudre (1880-1968) discussed what he referred to as prosopopesis or the nonconscious tendency to impersonate, as seen in mediumship, as well as in hypnosis, possession and cases of double and multiple personality.
, publisher=ABC-CLIO
, page=105
, title=Altering Consciousness: Multidisiplinary Perspectives
, author=Etzel Cardeña, Michael Winkelman
, year=2011
, ISBN=0313383081, 9780313383083}}
* {{quote-book, passage=Walter is good-naturedly willing to be called a "secondary personality," a "hypnotic impersonation", a "mindkin" (C.D.Broad), a "prosopopesis " (Sudre) or "entelechy" (Driesch). In fact, he says, "You may call me anything but 'It'!"
, publisher=Ayer Publishing
, page=94
, title=The case for and against psychical belief
, author=Carl Allanmore Murchison
, year=1975
, ISBN=0405070373, 9780405070372}}
As nouns the difference between possession and prosopopesis
is that possession is control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights while prosopopesis is a sudden and profound change of an individual's personality, whether spontaneous or induced e.g. in hypnosis.As a verb possession
is to invest with property.possession
English
Noun
(wikipedia possession) (en noun)- The car quickly became his most prized possession .
- I would gladly give all of my worldly possessions just to be able to do that.
- The car is in my possession .
- I'm in possession of the car.
- Réunion is the largest of France's overseas possessions .
- Back then, people with psychiatric disorders were sometimes thought to be victims of demonic possession .
- How long hath this possession held the man?
- The scoreboard shows a little football symbol next to the name of the team that has possession .
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- Some languages distinguish between a construction like 'my car', which shows alienable possession''' — the car could become someone else's — and one like 'my foot', which has inalienable '''possession — my foot will always be mine.
