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Catharsis

noun

(pl. catharses)

(psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions. Synonyms: abreaction, katharsis.

Purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels. Synonyms: katharsis, purgation.

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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

Words linked to "Catharsis" : purge, analysis, depth psychology, psychoanalysis, cathartic, purgation, purging