/ kəˈθɑːsɪs /
catharsis
noun
The process of releasing and providing relief from strong or repressed emotions.
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“I cried at the end of a film I had seen before. I knew it was coming and I cried anyway. Something needed to get out.”
Aristotle, Poetics
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