peripetyn.

1705 tr. Aristotle Art of Poetry 162 Peripetie is a change of one Fortune into another contrarie to what was expected.

1753 Adventurer No. 83. ⁋2 A fable is called complex, when it contains both a discovery and a peripetie.

1865 M. L. Booth tr. H. Martin Hist. France VII. 35 All France followed its [sc. a trial's] dramatic peripeties with a passionate curiosity.

1886 J. A. Symonds Catholic Reaction in Renaissance in Italy (1898) VII. xiv. 256 What peripeties of empire, may we not observe and ponder.

1904 Sat. Rev. 23 Jan. 107 By no means..let us have a peripety caused by the casual overhearing of something in the nick of time.

1964 M. 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.

2000 J. Bowen Other Dickens vi. 179 Barnaby, after an offstage peripety, is restored to his mother.

1942 K. W. Bash tr. J. Jacobi 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.]

1950 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. 40 236 Jung goes on to discuss the structure of dreams... He distinguishes..the culmination or peripety, and..the final lysis or solution.

1994 D. Cappon Intuition & Managem. 28 It is both sad and amusing to see a person's unwillingness and embarrassment, when asked to freely imagine rather than recall, the peripety of a sleep-dream without a lysis.