A cleansing from guilt or defilement, purification. Ritual Purification.
The goal of tragedy is to realize how fate affects people and to understand what destiny is. In his work Poetics Aristotle described the importance of the effect of tragedy on people. by examining the pity and fear that it aroused in people. He identified the function of tragedy as being the Katharsis of emotions, a purgation, purification or cleansing of the soul. The audience should feel good after experiencing Katharsis; the key to Katharsis is that it involves a release of strong emotions in the audience, which can lead to them experiencing a sense of relief, peace, and well-being after having watched the play.
In Freudian theory, Katharsis refers to the process of expelling negative emotions, thoughts, or impurities from the body or soul. Freud understood it to take place, in his psychoanalytic theory, when an emotional release occurred as a result of releasing repressed memories or emotions when they are brought up and into conscious awareness and find themselves expressed.
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Aristot. Poet. 1449b
Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; in language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament, the several kinds being found in separate parts of the play; in the form of action, not of narrative; through pity and fear affecting the proper purgation [Katharsis] of these emotions. By 'language embellished,' I mean language into which rhythm, 'harmony' and song enter. . . .
A tragedy, therefore, is a drama that gives the audience an experience of Katharsis. The protagonist, the principal part and generally a person of nobility, must make a moral decision which in turn influences the outcome of the play. The terror and pity felt by the audience produce Katharsis, cleansing or purifying of emotion.
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