Catharsis from an Ayurveda perspective
Catharsis (from Greek means “purification” or “cleansing” or “clarification”) is the purification and purgation of emotions-particularly pity and fear-through art or any extreme change in emotion that results in renewal and restoration. D. W. Lucas, in an authoritative edition of the Poetics, recognizes the possibility of catharsis bearing meaning ‘intellectual clarification,’” although his approach to these terms differs […]