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catharsis

Emotional purging and purification brought about by the experience of pity and fear, as in tragic drama. Aristotle in his Poetics used the term to explain the audience's feelings of relief or pleasure in watching the suffering of characters in a tragedy brought low by their own mistakes or cruel fate.



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But who needs catharsis when there's so much eye-popping, foot-stomping enjoyment to absorb?
Since most of us are caught up in the horrible cultural and political divisions in our country just now, as apparently Crutcher is as well, this is a satisfying catharsis.
When Rosen contends that the Republic is "more an unsuccessful catharsis of the philosophical compulsion to rule than a satire on the excessive pursuit of justice," it is hard to resist the inference that, to his mind, Straussians are symptomatic of the failure of this catharsis.
 
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