Trance vs Prosopopesis - What's the difference?
trance | prosopopesis | see also |
A dazed or unconscious condition.
(consciousness) A state of concentration, awareness and/or focus that filters information and experience; e.g. meditation, possession, etc.
* Bible, Acts x. 10
* Spenser
(psychology) A state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow attention.
(psychology) The previous state induced by hypnosis.
(uncountable) Trance music, a genre of electronic dance music.
(obsolete) A tedious journey.
To entrance.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To pass over or across; to traverse.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
* Tennyson
(obsolete) To pass; to travel.
(Webster 1913)
(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}}
Trance is a see also of prosopopesis.
As nouns the difference between trance and prosopopesis
is that trance is while prosopopesis is (parapsychology|rare) a sudden and profound change of an individual's personality, whether spontaneous or induced eg in hypnosis.trance
English
(wikipedia trance)Etymology 1
From (etyl) traunce, from (etyl)Alternative forms
* traunce (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- And he became very hungry, and would have eaten; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance .
- My soul was ravished quite as in a trance .
- (Halliwell)
Descendants
* French:Etymology 2
Verb
(tranc)- And there I left him tranced .
- Trance the world over.
- When thickest dark did trance the sky.