catharsisn.

Brit.

/kəˈθɑːsɪs/, U.S.

/kəˈθɑrsəs/

Forms: Also katharsis.

Etymology: modern Latin, < Greek κάθαρσις cleansing, purging, < καθαίρειν to cleanse, purge, < καθαρός clean.

Medicine.

a. Purgation of the excrements of the body; esp. evacuation of the bowels.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments removing or dispersing matter > [noun] > purging

purgationa1387

purginga1400

minoration1590

purgament1650

laxating1652

fluxation1656

catharm1678

scouring1682

catharsis1803

syrmaism1842

washing-out1890

lavage1895

1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 9 418 Causing vomiting, catharsis, or diabetes.

1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 449 The production of catharsis is the surest mode of relief in general dropsy.

b. The purification of the emotions by vicarious experience, esp. through the drama (in reference to Aristotle's Poetics 6). Also more widely.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > virtue > purity > [noun] > moral purification > by vicarious experience

catharsis1872

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [noun] > purification of emotions by

catharsis1872

1867 J. A. Symonds Let. 22 Aug. (1967) I. 751 The world desiderates now..a trilogy, whereof the whole third part shall exhibit ‘the height, the space, the gloom, the glory’, of ultimate final and perfect κάθαρσις.]

1872 G. S. Morris tr. F. Ueberweg Hist. Philos. I. i. 179 Aristotle can not have meant..to exclude from among the effect of the Tragedy, its effect as..ethical discipline. With the ‘Catharsis’..are..joined..the other effects of the same,—the latter effects flow from the ‘Catharsis’.

1897 B. F. C. Costelloe & J. H. Muir tr. E. Zeller Philos. Greeks II. xv. 311/2 According to Aristotle there is a kind of music which produces a catharsis, although it possesses no ethical value..—namely, exciting music.

1904 E. Dowden Robert Browning 289 Balaustion, stricken at heart, yet feels that this tragedy of Athens brings the tragic katharsis.

1920 D. H. Lawrence Touch & Go iii. i. 72 It's a cleansing process—like Aristotle's Katharsis. We shall hate ourselves clean at last, I suppose.

1924 L. Cooper Aristotelian Theory Com. 180 Aristotle..would recognize some sort of catharsis, and the resultant pleasure, to be the proper end of comedy.

1924 W. B. Selbie Psychol. Relig. 159 There may..be cases where experiences of this kind produce a moral catharsis which has good results.

1959 Chambers's Encycl. I. 592/1 The word catharsis (purgation), in which he [sc. Aristotle] summed up the emotional effect of tragedy, has also received much fanciful interpretation; in reality it is a medical term, with no directly moral or spiritual implications.

c. Psychotherapy. The process of relieving an abnormal excitement by re-establishing the association of the emotion with the memory or idea of the event which was the first cause of it, and of eliminating it by abreaction.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > psychology > theory of psychoanalysis > libido > relief > [noun]

abreaction1909

catharsis1909

1909 A. A. Brill in tr. S. Freud Sel. Papers on Hysteria 6 The German abreagiren..has different shades of meaning, from defense reaction to emotional catharsis.

1951 J. C. Flügel Hundred Years Psychol. (ed. 2) viii. 280 The mere bringing back and discussing of memories..which Freud and Breuer called subsequently ‘abreaction’ or ‘catharsis’.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	catharsis
释义	catharsisn. Brit. /kəˈθɑːsɪs/, U.S. /kəˈθɑrsəs/ Forms: Also katharsis. Etymology: modern Latin, < Greek κάθαρσις cleansing, purging, < καθαίρειν to cleanse, purge, < καθαρός clean. Medicine. a. Purgation of the excrements of the body; esp. evacuation of the bowels. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments removing or dispersing matter > [noun] > purging purgationa1387 purginga1400 minoration1590 purgament1650 laxating1652 fluxation1656 catharm1678 scouring1682 catharsis1803 syrmaism1842 washing-out1890 lavage1895 1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 9 418 Causing vomiting, catharsis, or diabetes. 1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 449 The production of catharsis is the surest mode of relief in general dropsy. b. The purification of the emotions by vicarious experience, esp. through the drama (in reference to Aristotle's Poetics 6). Also more widely. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > purity > [noun] > moral purification > by vicarious experience catharsis1872 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [noun] > purification of emotions by catharsis1872 1867 J. A. Symonds Let. 22 Aug. (1967) I. 751 The world desiderates now..a trilogy, whereof the whole third part shall exhibit ‘the height, the space, the gloom, the glory’, of ultimate final and perfect κάθαρσις.] 1872 G. S. Morris tr. F. Ueberweg Hist. Philos. I. i. 179 Aristotle can not have meant..to exclude from among the effect of the Tragedy, its effect as..ethical discipline. With the ‘Catharsis’..are..joined..the other effects of the same,—the latter effects flow from the ‘Catharsis’. 1897 B. F. C. Costelloe & J. H. Muir tr. E. Zeller Philos. Greeks II. xv. 311/2 According to Aristotle there is a kind of music which produces a catharsis, although it possesses no ethical value..—namely, exciting music. 1904 E. Dowden Robert Browning 289 Balaustion, stricken at heart, yet feels that this tragedy of Athens brings the tragic katharsis. 1920 D. H. Lawrence Touch & Go iii. i. 72 It's a cleansing process—like Aristotle's Katharsis. We shall hate ourselves clean at last, I suppose. 1924 L. Cooper Aristotelian Theory Com. 180 Aristotle..would recognize some sort of catharsis, and the resultant pleasure, to be the proper end of comedy. 1924 W. B. Selbie Psychol. Relig. 159 There may..be cases where experiences of this kind produce a moral catharsis which has good results. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. I. 592/1 The word catharsis (purgation), in which he [sc. Aristotle] summed up the emotional effect of tragedy, has also received much fanciful interpretation; in reality it is a medical term, with no directly moral or spiritual implications. c. Psychotherapy. The process of relieving an abnormal excitement by re-establishing the association of the emotion with the memory or idea of the event which was the first cause of it, and of eliminating it by abreaction. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > theory of psychoanalysis > libido > relief > [noun] abreaction1909 catharsis1909 1909 A. A. Brill in tr. S. Freud Sel. Papers on Hysteria 6 The German abreagiren..has different shades of meaning, from defense reaction to emotional catharsis. 1951 J. C. Flügel Hundred Years Psychol. (ed. 2) viii. 280 The mere bringing back and discussing of memories..which Freud and Breuer called subsequently ‘abreaction’ or ‘catharsis’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1803
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