Associations to the word «Catharsis»
Noun
- Aristotle
- Purification
- Cleansing
- Arousal
- Freud
- Tragedy
- Psychoanalysis
- Ingestion
- Emotion
- Dude
- Mediation
- Pity
- Purge
- Aggression
- Psychotherapy
- Insight
- Closure
- Plato
- Hangar
- Audience
- Tension
- Trauma
- Therapy
- Confrontation
- Discharge
- Ritual
- Cultivation
- Feeling
- Violence
- Anxiety
- Drama
- Understanding
- Identification
- Hypothesis
- Protagonist
- Interpretation
- Psychology
- Fear
- Satisfaction
- Theory
- Concept
- Experience
- Vocalist
- Anger
- Rage
- Client
- Mood
- Medium
- Advertising
- Meaning
- Self
- Conflict
- Prayer
- Effect
- Relief
- Kind
- Exposure
- Watching
- Argument
- Sense
- Function
Adjective
Wiktionary
CATHARSIS, noun. (drama) A release of emotional tension after an overwhelming vicarious experience, resulting in the purging or purification of the emotions, as through watching a dramatic production (especially a tragedy).
CATHARSIS, noun. Any release of emotional tension to the same effect, more widely.
CATHARSIS, noun. A purification or cleansing, especially emotional.
CATHARSIS, noun. (psychology) A therapeutic technique to relieve tension by re-establishing the association of an emotion with the memory or idea of the event that first caused it, and then eliminating it by complete expression (called the abreaction).
CATHARSIS, noun. (medicine) Purging of the digestive system.
Dictionary definition
CATHARSIS, noun. (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions.
CATHARSIS, noun. Purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels.
Wise words
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is
essential is invisible to the eye.