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Old Nov 26, 2007, 10:51 PM
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One of the definitions Google gives is entertaining:

"According to Aristotle, as interpreted by Freud and Lacan, catharsis (as found, for example, in the tragedies of Sophocles) produces a pleasurable calm by exciting the emotions, homeopathically one might say."
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