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(psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions
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katharsis
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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 ...
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katharsis \katharsis\ n. purging of emotional tensions; -- usually spelled catharsis . Syn: catharsis, abreaction.
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n. purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels [syn: catharsis , purgation ] (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions [syn: catharsis , abreaction ]
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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.