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Meanings of
katharsis
in inglés
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purgación
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(Psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions.
catharsis
purgation
abreaction
español
purgación
Usage of
katharsis
in inglés
1
To Aristotle tragedy seemed to afford a cleansing or
"
katharsis
of the soul" through the sympathetic experience of pity or fear.
2
Such, approximately, is Aristotle's view of the Tragic Emotion, or
Katharsis
.
3
What is meant by the Purgation
(
Katharsis
)
through pity and fear?
4
Bernays concludes that by
Katharsis
is denoted the "alleviating discharge" of the emotions themselves.
5
The mysterious
Katharsis
,
the emotion of tragedy, is, then, a special type of the unique aesthetic emotion.
6
We speak o Aristotle's
Katharsis
as the Tragic Emotion, forgetting that to-day Tragedy and the Tragic are no longer identical.
7
So Lessing in the "Hamburgische Dramaturgie" takes
Katharsis
as the conversion of the emotions in general into virtuous dispositions.
8
But the question of Aristotle and our problem of
Katharsis
is the problem of the emotion aroused by the Tragic Drama.
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Translations for
katharsis
portugués
catarse
catalán
catarsi
español
purgación
catársis
abreacción
Katharsis
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