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Catharsis
About: Catharsis is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 704 publications have been published within this topic receiving 9124 citations.
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15 Aug 1989
TL;DR: In this paper, a rich and full exploration of the myriad of instances where a mourner is deprived of the catharsis shared grief brings is presented. And numerous interventions designed to help patients recognize and explore their loss, and find meaningful and appropriate ways to resolve their grief.
Abstract: A rich and full exploration of the myriad of instances where a mourner is deprived of the catharsis shared grief brings. Provides numerous interventions designed to help patients recognize and explore their loss, and find meaningful and appropriate ways to resolve their grief.
1,020 citations
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1 Jan 1989
TL;DR: In this article, the historical-primal theory of seduction in psychoanalysis and psychology has been studied in the context of child psychology, and a major instance of confusion over the "Objectless State".
Abstract: Part 1 Catharsis: Biology Phylogenesis Mechanism Linguistics Morphisms Foundations and the historical-primal - psychoanalysis and psychology A Major Instance of Confusion - The "Objectless State" A Role for Child Psychology. Part 2 Foundations - Towards a General Theory of Seduction: The Primal Situation - Adult-Child The Protagonists in the Primal Situation From the Special Theory of Seduction to the General Theory of Seduction Afterword - The Nature of the Unconscious. Part 3 The Practical Task The Situation Transference The Process.
350 citations
TL;DR: Contrary to the catharsis hypothesis and to the self-fulfilling prophecy prediction, people who read the procatharsis message and then hit the punching bag were subsequently more aggressive than were people who reading the anticatharsi message.
Abstract: Does media endorsement for catharsis produce a self-fulfilling or a self-defeating prophecy? In Study 1, participants who read a procatharsis message (claiming that aggressive action is a good way to relax and reduce anger) subsequently expressed a greater desire to hit a punching bag than did participants who read an anticatharsis message. In Study 2, participants read the same messages and then actually did hit a punching bag. This exercise was followed by an opportunity to engage in laboratory aggression. Contrary to the catharsis hypothesis and to the self-fulfilling prophecy prediction, people who read the procatharsis message and then hit the punching bag were subsequently more aggressive than were people who read the anticatharsis message.
285 citations
TL;DR: The authors argue that aesthetic and narrative feelings interact to produce metaphors of personal identification that modify self-understanding, and argue that the concept of catharsis (the conflict of tragic feelings identified byAristotle) identifies one particular form of a more general pattern in which aesthetic and narratives feelings evoked during reading interact to modify the reader.
236 citations
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29 May 1998
TL;DR: The King and I On Killing Freud (Again) Knowingness and Abandonment: An Oedipus for Our Time An Interpretation of Transference Restlessness, Phantasy, and the Concept of Mind The Introduction of Eros: Reflections on the Work of Hans Loewald Eros and Unknowing: The Psychoanalytic Significance of Plato's Symposium Testing the Limits: The Place of Tragedy in Aristotle's Ethics Catharsis Inside and outside the Republic Transcendental Anthropology The Disappearing We Notes Acknowledgments Index
Abstract: Preface: The King and I On Killing Freud (Again) Knowingness and Abandonment: An Oedipus for Our Time An Interpretation of Transference Restlessness, Phantasy, and the Concept of Mind The Introduction of Eros: Reflections on the Work of Hans Loewald Eros and Unknowing: The Psychoanalytic Significance of Plato's Symposium Testing the Limits: The Place of Tragedy in Aristotle's Ethics Catharsis Inside and outside the Republic Transcendental Anthropology The Disappearing We Notes Acknowledgments Index
226 citations
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