{"id":861,"date":"2023-02-21T17:50:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T17:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artistry\/?p=861"},"modified":"2023-02-21T17:50:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T17:50:21","slug":"on-epiphanies-and-dysepiphanies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artistry\/2023\/02\/21\/on-epiphanies-and-dysepiphanies\/","title":{"rendered":"On epiphanies and &#8216;dysepiphanies&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">&#8216;Peaks and Troughs: Dysepiphany, antiphany, and melancholy&#8217; has just been published in the Journal of Value Inquiry<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-article-section__content\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-862\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artistry\/files\/2023\/02\/s-l500.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In her new book, <i>Epiphanies: An Ethics of Experience<\/i>, Sophie Grace Chappell defines an epiphany as an (1) overwhelming (2) existentially significant manifestation of (3) value, (4) often sudden and surprising, (5) which feeds the psyche, (6) which feels like it \u201ccomes from outside\u201d \u2013 it is something given, relative to which I am a passive perceiver \u2013 which (7) teaches us something new, which (8) \u201ctakes us out of ourselves\u201d, and which (9) demands a response.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-section__content\">\n<p>However, it should be noted that the book is not just about epiphanies. As Chappell rightly points out, \u2018if epiphanies are the peaks in our experience, then by definition, to study them must also be to study the troughs\u2019. In this brief essay, Hans Maes looks more closely at those troughs. He first discusses what Chappell refers to as a \u2018dysepiphany\u2019 or \u2018negative epiphany\u2019. In the second section, he probes Chappell\u2019s claim that dysepiphanies sap our psychic resources and considers whether epiphanies and dysepiphanies may sometimes co-occur and even reinforce each other. In the third and final section, he tries to determine what the opposite of an epiphany might be and argues that anyone with an interest in epiphanies should also be keen to investigate any opposing processes that might be at work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Peaks and Troughs: Dysepiphany, antiphany, and melancholy&#8217; has just been published in the Journal of Value Inquiry &nbsp; &nbsp; In her new book, Epiphanies: An &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artistry\/2023\/02\/21\/on-epiphanies-and-dysepiphanies\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36744,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36744"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":864,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions\/864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/artistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}