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14-September-2008 12:50:26 - Catharsis For other uses, see Catharsis disambiguation. Catharsis Ancient Greek: ΚάθαÏ?σις is a Greek word meaning purification, cleansing or clarification. It is derived from the infinitive Ancient Greek: καθαίÏ?ειν transliterated as kathairein to purify, purge, and adjective Ancient Greek: καθαÏ?ός katharos pure or clean. Contents 1 Dramaturgical uses 2 Catharsis before tragedy 3 Medical uses 4 Religion 4.1 Cathartic Sacrifice 5 See also 6 Sources External links 7 Notes Dramaturgical uses The term in drama refers to a sudden emotional climax that evokes overwhelming feelings of great sorrow, pity, laughter or any other extreme change in emotion, resulting in restoration, renewal and revitalization in members of the audience. Using the term catharsis to refer to a form of emotional cleansing was first done by the Greek philosopher Aristotle in his work Poetics. It refers to the sensation, or literary effect, that would ideally overcome an audience upon finishing watching a tragedy a release of pent-up emotion or energy. In his previous works, he used the term in its medical sense usually referring to the evacuation of the katamenia, the menstrual fluid or other reproductive material.1 Because of this, F. L. Lucas maintains that catharsis cannot be properly translated as purification or cleansing, but only as purgation. Since before Poetics catharsis was purely a medical term, Aristotle is employing it as a medical metaphor. It is the human soul that is purged of its excessive passions.2 Lessing sidesteps the medical aspect of the issue and translates catharsis as a purification, an experience that brings pity and fear into their proper balance: In real life, he explained, men are sometimes too much addicted to pity or fear, sometimes too little; tragedy brings them back to a virtuous and happy mean.3 Tragedy is then a corrective; through watching tragedy the audience learns how to feel these emotions at the proper levels. Some modern interpreters of the work infer that catharsis is pleasurable because audience members felt ekstasis Greek: ἔκστασις literally: astonishment, meaning: trance from the fact that there existed those who could suffer a worse fate than them was to them a relief.citation needed Any translator attempting to interpret Aristotle's meaning of the term should take into account that Poetics is largely a response to Plato's claim that poetry encourages men to be hysterical and uncontrolled. In response to Plato, Aristotle maintains that poetry makes them less, not more, emotional, by giving a periodic and healthy outlet to their feelings. In literary aesthetics, catharsis is developed by the conjunction of stereotyped characters and unique or surprising actions. Throughout a play we do not expect the nature of a character to change significantly, rather pre-existing elements are revealed in a relatively straight-forward way as the character is confronted with unique actions in time. This can be clearly seen in Oedipus Rex where King Oedipus is confronted with ever more outrageous actions until emptying generated by the death of his mother-wife and his act of self-blinding. In contemporary aesthetics catharsis may also refer to any emptying of emotion experienced by an audience in relation to drama. This exstasis can be perceived in comedy, melodrama and most other dramatic forms. Deliberate attempts, on political or aesthetic bases, to subvert the structure of catharsis in theatre have occurred. For example, Bertold Brecht viewed catharsis as a pap for the bourgeois theatre audience, and designed dramas which left significant emotions unresolved, as a way to force social action upon the audience. In Brecht's theory, the absence of a cathartic resolving action would require the audience to take political action in the real world in order to fill the emotional gap they experience. This technique can be seen as early as his agit-prop play The Measures Taken. Catharsis before tragedy Catharsis before the sixth-century rise of tragedy is, for the Western World, essentially a historical footnote to the Aristotelian conception. The practice of purification did not yet appear in Homer, as later Greek commentators noted:4 the Aithiopis, an epic in the Trojan War cycle, narrates the purification of Achilles after his murder of Thersites. Catharsis describes the result of means taken to cleanse away blood-guilt-blood is purified through blood Burkert 1992:56 a process in the development of Hellenic culture in which the oracle of Delphi took a prominent role. The classic example, of Orestes, belongs to tragedy, but the procedure given by Aeschylus is ancient: the blood of a sacrificed piglet is allowed to wash over the blood-polluted man, and running water washes away the blood.5 The identical ritual is represented, Burkert informs us 1992:57 on a krater found at Canicattini, to cure the daughters of Proetus of their madness, caused by some ritual transgression. To the question of whether the ritual procures atonement or just healing, Burkert answers: To raise the question is to see the irrelevance of this distinction 1992:57. The Greek nosos embraces both physical sickness and social ills. This was first used by Mike St. Pierre in his epic novel uncomming part II released in 1867. Medical uses The term catharsis has been used for centuries as a medical term meaning a purging. Most commonly in a medical context, it euphemistically refers to a purging of the bowels. A drug, herb, or other agent administered as a strong laxative is termed a cathartic. The term catharsis has also been adopted by modern psychotherapy, particularly Freudian psychoanalysis, to describe the act of expressing deep emotions often associated with events in the individual's past which have never before been adequately expressed. Catharsis is also an emotional release associated with talking about the underlying causes of a problem. It can also describe the effect producing an outlet for violence by acting as a form of release for violent behaviour. For example, in forms of media or in a dream. However a good many studies have shown a correlation between the viewing of violent media and aggression.6 The counter argument is that correlation is not causation and that it is just as likely that aggressive people are drawn to violent media. Religion Another meaning under the heading of purging can concern body and soul - in it concerns efforts made to come to terms with guilt and sin, penance such as by chastisement in modern use of that word, the meaning of punishment has taken over from the original sense of purification, such as practiced by flagellants; a testimony to the age of this use is the very name of the Cathars a medieval sect. In Mysticism, the end of human life and of philosophy is to realize the mystical return of the soul to God. Freeing itself from the sensuous world by katharsis, the purified human soul ascends by successive steps through the various degrees of the metaphysical order, until it unites itself in a clear and completely conscious contemplation to the One, and unifies into the state of ecstasis. Thus in the neo-Platonism of Plotinus, the first step in the return of the soul to God is the act by which the soul, withdrawing from the world of sense by a process of purification katharsis, frees itself from the trammels of matter. A point to note here is that psychology and philosophy were not separate in Classical Philosophy Greek through Roman period. Thus in classical mysticism, as well as current mystical traditions, katharsis is a process leading to the transcending of psychological, as well as spiritual, traumas and negativities. Cathartic Sacrifice In early cults, the distinction between sacred and unclean is far from complete or well defined see Taboo; consequently we find two types of cathartic sacrifice: one to cleanse of impurity and make fit for common use, another to rid of sanctity and in like manner render suitable for human use or intercourse. The most conspicuous example of the first class is the scapegoat. Two goats were provided by the ancient Hebrews on the Day of Atonement; the high priest sent one into the desert, after confessing on it the sins of Israel; it was not permitted to run free but was probably cast over a precipice; the other was sacrificed as a sin-offering. In like manner in the purification of lepers two birds were used; the throat of one was cut, the living bird dipped in the blood mingled with water and the leper sprinkled; then the bird was set free to carry away the leprosy. In both these rites we seem to have a duplication of ritual, and the parallelism of sacrifice and liberation is clear. As an example of the second class may be taken the sacrifice of the bull to the Rigvedic god Rudra. MM. Hubert and Mauss interpret this to mean that the sanctity of the remainder of the herd was concentrated on a single animal; the god, incarnate in the herd, was eliminated by the sacrifice, and the cattle saved from the dangers to which their association with the god exposed them. The Feast of First fruits is another example of the same sort; comparable with this concentration of holiness is the respect or veneration shown to a single animal as representative of its species see animal worship. In both these cases the object of the rite is the elimination of impurity or of a source of danger. But the Nazarite was equally bound to lay aside his holiness before mixing with common folk and returning to ordinary life; this he did by a sacrifice, which, with the offering of his hair upon the altar, freed him from his vow and reduced him to the same level of sanctity as ordinary men. See also Closure psychology Sources External links Look up catharsis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Catharsis This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh ion, a publication now in the public domain. Catholic Encyclopedia: Mysticism and NeoPlatonism Notes ^ Belifiore, Elizabeth S. Tragic Pleasures: Aristotle on Plot and Emotion, page 300. Princeton UP, 1992 ^ Lucas, F.L. Tragedy in Relation to Aristotle's Poetics, page 24 ^ ibid., page 23. Hogarth, 1928 ^ Walter Burkert, 1992. The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age, p.56. Harvard University Press. This sub-section depends largely on Burkert. ^ Burkert notes parallels with a bilingual Akkadian-Sumerian ritual text: the knowledgeable specialist, the sacrificial piglet, slaughter, contact with blood, and the subsequent cleansing with water 1992:58. ^ Catharsis Theory and Media Effects | Encyclopedia of Communication and Information Retrieved from http://en..org/wiki/Catharsis Categories: Psychoanalysis | Catharism | Emotion | Ancient Greek theatre | Literary concepts | Narratology | Plot | Poetics | Greek loanwordsHidden categories: All articles with statements | Articles with statements since February 2007 Views Article Discussion this page History Personal tools Log in / create account Navigation Main page Contents Featured content Current events Random article Search Go Search Interaction Community portal Recent changes Contact Donate to Help Toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Printable version Permanent link Cite this page Languages БългарÑ?ки Deutsch Esperanto Français Galego Bahasa Indonesia Italiano עברית 日本語 ‪Norsk bokmÃ¥l‬ Polski Português Română РуÑ?Ñ?кий СрпÑ?ки / Srpski Suomi Svenska This page was last modified on 12 September 2008, at 21:45
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