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noun relating to cathartic. Introduced by Aristotle meaning the process of relieving strong feelings eg thru drama or other artistic activities, targeting provision of relief from anger or suffering.
Actor's or artist's state of mind may go thru catharsis while they're on the set shooting a emotionally intense movie after a break up in private life.
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The release of pent-up or repressed energies through their attachment to a new object or situation and their resultant release. For instance, the vicarious satisfaction of a desire to commit violence due to frustration with one's boss, through something other than violence against one's boss, e.g. through watching violent films, doing karate as a hobby, fighting a rival gang, playing Doom, etc.
It's a concept taken from Freudian psychoanalysis.
It also has a peculiar meaning in Gramscian theory, where it refers to the rearticulation and reconfiguration of desires and passions into a new ideological/philosophical framework - roughly speaking, the achievement of a new, revolutionary formation of desire.
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a therapeutical technique used to release tension by bringing repressed feelings and fear to surface
Cutting does NOT count as a form of catharsis, as it further represses the issues at hand.
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Exressions of pity and terror in plays, etc.
Greek Tragedies always had catharsis
eg:-
Shakespear's Julius Caesar(ACT II Scene I)
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Plural: Catharses
Noun:
1. The release of emotions or emotional tension to restore or refresh the spirit. Venting.
2. Medical Term - Purging, especially the digestive tract. See hurl, blow chunks
1. I got so frustrated after watching the Matrix Revolutions that as a catharsis, I decided to give a girl a good emeril.
2. See that skanky ho? She might look skinny, but really, she has her own little catharsis every night, after her midnight binge.
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The release of emotional tension, especially through some form of art or music
I really feel like catharsis right now
Neither. Like, you're not getting universal healthcare. You don't actually care about human life in a way that's meaningful. Case and point, the child murder that COULD HAVE OCCURRED IMMEDIATELY in response to you stealing my theory of AI has been postponed and still you agitate and thumb your nose up at me in the hopes that I'll murder someone's kid so you can steal away with whatever you've been paid (likely by a cripple) to remain silent.
Hym "So it'll be neither catalyst nor catharsis. You are fundamentally incapable of learning any meaningful lessons from the healthcare CEO's death. Like... Both sides of the political spectrum are using it as evidence of the legitimacy of their politics, there will be a new CEO by the end of the week, and I'm the only one reading this who is being denied healthcare. The CEO is dead. The shooters life is over. They collided and exploded into a pile of coins and YOU (like the repugnant YouTube scavengers you are) have crawled out of your filth-hole to fill your pockets while you proselytize for your dogma. 'We HaVe To OrGaNiZe!' Are you just thinking of that NOW? After YEARS of political commentary... NOW is the time for you to organize? You didn't need to organize until round 2 of Trump and now it's super important because you am a resistance? I don't get it. Like, this whole time you've been disorganized? But now... You're gonna organize? You gonna 'grasp the levers of power?' What levers? What power? Are you going to break the shackles that bind you? Are you going to learn to love again? Meaningless faux-inspirational gibberish."