They both contain what the Greek called katharsis in their tragedies, -- that cleansing atmosphere which purges us of every baser feeling as we read them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gentleman from San Francisco] Reference

Just write something katharsis keeping going kent kew landlady problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aftermath...] Reference

The Greeks saw life as a tragic epic, a drama in which they strove for katharsis and re­lease.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buddha]

By some form of katharsis we hope to drain off these emotions (unless we undertake merely to suppress them).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History] Reference

The crisis for Mesmer also has this function of katharsis and exclusion, involving "an effort of the living body to throw off an illness" and marking.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815)] Reference

It's famous enough: 'Tragedy is, then, a representation of an action that is heroic and complete and of a certain magnitude—by means of language enriched with all kinds of ornament, each used separately in the different parts of the play: it represents men in action and does not use narrative, and through pity and terror it effects a katharsis of these and similar emotions.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catharsis] Reference

Hence his equally famous doctrine that the aim of art is the calming, purifying (katharsis) and ennobling of the affections.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference

He accepts, however, the function of music as a katharsis of emotion, a notion which is said to have originated with the Pythagoreans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man] Reference

It is a tragedy with the classic aim of producing a katharsis of pity and terror, and in order to do that Blanche must finally have the understanding and compassion of the audience.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sheila Variations] Reference

Tragedy has other objects, the katharsis or purifying of the emotions for instance, which, if we are to continue to use words in their ordinary sense, is something distinct from enjoyment, and not always reconcilable with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc] Reference

Balaustion, stricken at heart, yet feels that this tragedy of Athens brings the tragic katharsis; the justice of the gods is visible in it; and above man's wickedness and folly she reaches to “yon blue liberality of heaven.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Browning]

Being present at such a marvellous performance of such a wonderful play is nothing short of therapeutic as it welcomes our unconscious motivations onto the stage of our consciences, shines a conscious light on them and in sum redeems us with a wonderful katharsis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Still Point] Reference

I know this comment's a bit late for your teaching, but I always like to focus on the ritual bit, the part that these played in the life of the city, how the architecture of the amphitheatre forced Athenian citizens to view the action literally through the chorus, and how the expurgation represented in katharsis modeled a literal expurgation of the negative element from the stage space, so that the tragic hero literally becomes a scape goat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dramatic Despair] Reference

'fear' or 'katharsis'; in fact he did not make the acquaintance of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller] Reference

"katharsis of the soul" through the sympathetic experience of pity or fear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference

But surely would have given him his katharsis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collected Poems] Reference

Dr Atomic, inspiration, katharsis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Katharsis and inspiration] Reference