Classic to Modern English Literature

  Q: Dramatically explain the Catharsis: pity and fears of Poetics by Aristotle .                               Catharsis is the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions. " Music is a means of catharsis for them ." Catharsis is from the Ancient Greek word " katharsis ", meaning " purification " or " cleansing ", commonly used to refer to the purification and purgation of thoughts and emotions by way of expressing them. The desired result is an emotional state of renewal and restoration. Aristotle a tragedy is an imitation of an action.   What the actor on stage does thrusting through the curtain with his sword represents Hamlet thrusting through the curtain with his sword. Aristotle 's fragmentary treatise on the Fine Arts (Poetike) has been the subject of commentary since its composition in the 4th century B.C. to Aristotle 's concept of katharsis and the " medical " vs &quo

Aristotle's fragmentary treatise on the Fine Arts (Poetike) has been the subject of commentary since its composition in the 4th century B.C. It is likely one of the most extensively analyzed works of secular literature in the West. Yet, it has received surprisingly little attention from the psychoanalytic world, aside from occasional references to Aristotle's concept of katharsis and the "medical" versus "moral" controversy surrounding it. The pre-eminent scholar on katharsis, whose views eventually became predominant, was Jakob Bernays, whose *Zwei Abhandlungen über die Aristotelische Theorie des Dramas* appeared in Berlin in 1880. According to Bernays, the effect of tragedy results from the pleasurable relief it provides the spectator, via the excitation and purging (abreaction) of fear and pity, within the safe confines of the stage. (Jakob Bernays was the uncle of Freud's wife, Martha). Freud's views on the function of tragedy, as expressed in &q