Catharsis

the purification and purgation of emotions through art or any extreme change in emotion that results in renewal and restoration From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Catharsis is a term in the Greek theatre meaning the purification of emotions through art. This was the effect of the tragedy as the main and earliest genre of the Greek theatre. It was originally used by Aristotle in the Poetics. [1]

It was also used in psychology.

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