Significados de katharsis en inglés

To Aristotle tragedy seemed to afford a cleansing or "katharsis of the soul" through the sympathetic experience of pity or fear.

Such, approximately, is Aristotle's view of the Tragic Emotion, or Katharsis.

What is meant by the Purgation (Katharsis) through pity and fear?

Bernays concludes that by Katharsis is denoted the "alleviating discharge" of the emotions themselves.

The mysterious Katharsis, the emotion of tragedy, is, then, a special type of the unique aesthetic emotion.

We speak o Aristotle's Katharsis as the Tragic Emotion, forgetting that to-day Tragedy and the Tragic are no longer identical.

So Lessing in the "Hamburgische Dramaturgie" takes Katharsis as the conversion of the emotions in general into virtuous dispositions.

But the question of Aristotle and our problem of Katharsis is the problem of the emotion aroused by the Tragic Drama.