// Glossary
Catharsis
6 topics
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Can You Understand Your Own Emotions Through Creation?
The experience of releasing and purifying suppressed emotions through creation. It promotes emotional organization and self-acceptance.
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Are 'Landmines' and 'Being Struck' Two Sides of the Same Sensitivity?
The experience of safely releasing suppressed emotions through fiction and obtaining mental purification. One of the psychological effects of 'being struck.'
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Why Do We Seek 'Pain' in Creation?
The effect of releasing suppressed emotions through stories accompanied by pain and obtaining spiritual purification.
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Do We Overlay Reality onto Fictional Relationships?
The effect of indirectly releasing suppressed emotions through fiction and obtaining spiritual purification.
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Why Can the Pain in Fiction Sometimes Feel Good?
The experience of safely releasing suppressed emotions through fiction and obtaining mental purification and peace. The psychological mechanism by which stories involving pain feel comforting.
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About the Feeling of Being Saved by Music
A concept from Aristotle: the process of safely discharging and purifying emotions such as fear and sorrow through tragedy or music, restoring mental balance.