catharsis
Sign in to saveCatharsis or katharsis is from the Ancient Greek word , , meaning 'purification' or 'cleansing', commonly used to refer to the purification and purgation of thoughts and emotions by way of expressing them. The desired result is an emotional state of renewal and restoration.
Catharsis is the process of purifying and releasing pent-up thoughts and emotions by expressing them, whether through talking, writing, art, or other means. The goal is to achieve a feeling of emotional renewal and relief by getting these feelings out rather than keeping them bottled up inside.
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- Suprapubic catheter catharsis: a thousand insertions later.BJU international · 2022Adam ADOI: 10.1111/bju.15680
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19 sectionsContents
- Purification ritual
- Platonism
- Passive psychological
- Purgation or purification?
- Intellectual clarification
- Attempts to avoid passive catharsis
- Active and conversational psychological
- Psychodrama
- Primal therapy
- Social catharsis
- Stages
- Motives
- Reactions to emotional events
- A critical perspective of collective catharsis
- Effects
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
Catharsis or katharsis is from the Ancient Greek word , , meaning 'purification' or 'cleansing', commonly used to refer to the purification and purgation of thoughts and emotions by way of expressing them. The desired result is an emotional state of renewal and restoration.
In dramaturgy, the term usually refers to arousing negative emotion in an audience, who subsequently expels it, making them feel happier.