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Can someone help discuss portrayals of catharsis in fiction anf film? [[User:Le Anh-Huy|Le Anh-Huy]] ([[User talk:Le Anh-Huy|talk]]) 20:43, 6 August 2008 (UTC) |
Can someone help discuss portrayals of catharsis in fiction anf film? [[User:Le Anh-Huy|Le Anh-Huy]] ([[User talk:Le Anh-Huy|talk]]) 20:43, 6 August 2008 (UTC) |
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I agree, this needs an "In Popular Culture" segment. ([[Special:Contributions/213.96.203.23|213.96.203.23]] ([[User talk:213.96.203.23|talk]]) 07:21, 7 August 2008 (UTC)) |
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Paragraph 2
Please keep facts on wikipedia and not your opinions. Thanks.
- Opinions are fine on the discussion page. Thanks.
- I've tried to write a better paragraph 2. I did my best, but I'm not a professional writer. What I think is important to this article is to include differing opinions on the best translation of Catharsis. I welcome people cleaning up this paragraph, but please keep the three different possibilities of what Aristotle might have meant. (Although that first one is fairly ahistoric, so I wanted to see a citation. If no citation is supplied, I don't mind seeing it deleted.) Thanks! --In Defense of the Artist 03:33, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
The Catharsis-hypothesis in human sexuality
The Catharsis-hypothesis is sometimes discussed in studies about the effects of pornography on human behavior, and in this case, the hypothesis says that exposure to erotica may lead to sexual release and hence cause less rape crimes due to pornography that some believe. Maybe this could be brought up in this article as I didn't see it specifically mentioning this sexuality aspect. -- Northgrove 14:25, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
- It sounds like this would want to be its own article. --In Defense of the Artist 18:59, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
Schadenfreude
"While seemingly related to schadenfreude, it is not, however, in the sense that the audience is not intentionally led to feel happy in light of others' misfortunes; in an invariant sense, their spirits are refreshed through having greater appreciation for life"
This sentence is unclear and difficult to read. I need some help to rewrite it. What does "in an invariant sense" mean? Tonyfaull 15:09, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
"This can be clearly seen in Oedipus Rex where King Oedipus is confronted with ever more outrageous actions until emptying generated by the death of his mother-wife and his act of self-blinding." This sentence seems to be missing a verb. If anything can be clearly seen, please enlighten us with the meaning of this sentence. Not finding a lot of useful information in this entry. antivert
I found a fascinating link between catharsis and schadenfreude:
- "As Tragedy in Aristotle's view rids us of excessive pity and fear, Comedy performs the same service for less polite emotions, both the malice, the Schadenfreude, which makes us desire to abuse and ridicule our neighbors, and the appetites of sex." F. L. Lucas, from "Emotional Effect of Tragedy". --In Defense of the Artist 16:48, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
edfdfasdfasf —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.89.177.31 (talk) 20:49, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
Intro?
I don't know enough to do this, but WP:NOT says we're not a dictionary, so why is the entire intro tracing the root of the word itself? Someone needs to move the relevant info to the intro. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jonwilliamsl (talk • contribs) 03:08, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
Acts of Catharsis in fiction and film
Can someone help discuss portrayals of catharsis in fiction anf film? Le Anh-Huy (talk) 20:43, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
I agree, this needs an "In Popular Culture" segment. (213.96.203.23 (talk) 07:21, 7 August 2008 (UTC))
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