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katharsis

katharsis \katharsis\ n. purging of emotional tensions; -- usually spelled catharsis.

Syn: catharsis, abreaction.

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katharsis
  1. n. purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels [syn: catharsis, purgation]

  2. (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions [syn: catharsis, abreaction]

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Katharsis

Katharsis may refer to:

  • Catharsis or katharsis, a Greek word meaning "cleansing" or "purging"
  • Katharsis (album), an album by Czesław Niemen
  • Katharsis (journal), an Israeli periodical
  • Katharsis, a song by Doda from Diamond Bitch
  • Katharsis (band), a German black metal band
  • Katharsis, one of the members of the fictional rogue team The Disgraced
Katharsis (album)

Katharsis - Czesław Niemen's concept album released in 1976. It is about dead ends and traps on the road of expanding human civilization and space exploration. This album was recorded by Czesław Niemen alone, without help from other musicians.

The track "Epitafium (Pamięci Piotra)" is dedicated to drummer Piotr Dziemski, who helped to record Niemen's previous album " Aerolit" and who had died in 1975.

Katharsis (journal)

Katharsis, A Critical Review in the Humanities and Social Sciences, is a Hebrew periodical published twice a year and dedicated to detailed scholarly criticism of Hebrew publications in the Humanities and Social Studies.

It is published and distributed by Carmel Publishing House, Jerusalem. Katharsis was established in 2004 by Mezaref, a non-profit-making society registered in Israel. The first editors were John Glucker, Doron Mendels, and Moshe Shokeid.

Each issue opens – following the table of contents and editorial – by a 'programmatic' article criticizing some aspect of the manner in which study and research in the human disciplines are conducted in the Israeli academic world. Most of the main articles are 'review articles', dealing at length and in depth with books and articles in the Humanities and Social Studies published in Hebrew. The reviewers, experts in their respective fields, analyse in detail the book or article under review, citing exemplary passages for discussion, and deal with the methods (or lack of them) employed (or ignored) by the authors. The main aim of Katharsis is to raise academic standards by exposing errors, distortions and wilful deceptions in sub-standard publications; but some of the reviews praise works of serious scholarship and hold them up as examples to be followed.

Each issue ends with the section Remembrance of Former Generations, which includes a critical article or two by one of the leading Israeli scholars of the past century, preceded by a survey of his life and an assessment of his contributions to knowledge. Each issue also has a number of short, 1–2 page, 'pearls': quotations from books or articles pretending to present the reader with proper facts and explanations, while being full of basic errors. The editors explain what the errors are and what should have been written instead. At the back of each volume there is an English title-page, and English summaries of the main articles.

The present editors are Yehuda Friedlander, John Glucker, Alon Harel, Doron Mendels, and Amos Edelheit.

Katharsis (band)

Katharsis are a German black metal band.

Usage examples of "katharsis".

Most of the proceeds from Katharsis are used for maintaining and preserving the land.

Music swelled from the speakers, and a message flashed against a stunning picture of steam eruptions along a glittering blue shore: katharsis protects our sacred spaces.

Had Katharsis changed them, or had their years of prosperity dulled their senses and made them long for more bloodthirsty, pulsepounding pleasures?

Qui-Gon imagined that most of the population was in the Katharsis Dome.

Luckily, most people were in the Katharsis Dome, or they would have run the risk of being recognized.

UniFy deliberately devised Katharsis just to distract the population from their intentions?

Then scenes of what Katharsis funded would flash on the giant screens.

One can imagine the greater the adversity the greater the sudden realization of a stream of imaginative work, and the greater the sudden katharsis of poetry, from the isolated interpretation of war as calamity to the realization of the imaginative and actual tragedy of Man.