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Catharsis   /kəθˈɑrsəs/   Listen
noun
Catharsis  n.  (Med.)
1.
A natural or artificial purgation of any passage, as of the mouth, bowels, etc.
2.
(Psychotherapy) The process of relieving an abnormal excitement by reestablishing the association of the emotion with the memory or idea of the event that first caused it, and of eliminating it by complete expression (called the abreaction).





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... Aristotle were as absolute as the theorems of Euclid. His polemic against the French school is chiefly directed to claiming a place in poetry for the verisimilar, as against absolute historical exactitude. He held the universal to be a sort of mean of what appears in the individual, the catharsis was in his view a transformation of the passions into virtuous dispositions, and he held the duty of poetry to be inspiration of the love of virtue. He followed Winckelmann in believing that the expression of physical beauty was the supreme object of painting. This ...
— Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic • Benedetto Croce


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