(Psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions.
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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