English Explanatory Dictionary

prosopopesis

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A sudden and profound change of an individual's personality, whether spontaneous or induced e.g. in hypnosis.

Word forms

prosopopesis

Etymology

From prosopo- (“person, mask”) + -poiesis; introduced by French psychical researcher René Sudre, whose book "Parapsychology" (1926) was published in English by Grove Press in 1962. Possibly influenced by προσωποποιία (prosōpopoiía, “dramatization, prosopopoeia”).

Related words

dissociative identity disorder possession séance trance
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