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peripeteia
(drama) A sudden reversal of fortune as a plot point in Classical tragedy.
(by extension) Any sudden change in circumstances; a crisis.
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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.
(psychoanalysis) A turning point in psychosocial development.
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