ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -catharsis, the purification or purgation of the emotions (especially pity and fear) primarily through art. In criticism, catharsis is a metaphor used by Aristotle in the Poetics to describe the effects of true tragedy on the spectator.

Detailed explanation-2: -: purification or purgation of the emotions (such as pity and fear) primarily through art. : a purification or purgation that brings about spiritual renewal or release from tension. : elimination of a complex by bringing it to consciousness and affording it expression. 3. : purgation.

Detailed explanation-3: -Catharsis is the process of releasing strong or pent-up emotions through art. Aristotle coined the term catharsis-which comes from the Greek kathairein meaning “to cleanse or purge"-to describe the release of emotional tension that he believed spectators experienced while watching dramatic tragedy.

Detailed explanation-4: -The feelings they arouse are subordinated to another effect. Aristotle begins by saying that tragedy arouses pity and fear in such a way as to culminate in a cleansing of those passions, the famous catharsis. The word is used by Aristotle only the once, in his preliminary definition of tragedy.