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Catharsis is defined by Jiang as purging or releasing emotion, with crying treated as the bodily discharge through which tragedy works on the soul.
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Purging
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"Yeah. It's purging. You understand? Catharsis literally means purging. Basically, throw up and release your emotions. Okay? That's what crying is. You're purging yourself...."
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"...the imagery. Like, there's just a lot of burning. So the purging is like how you extract finer metals from ore and bad substances."
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"...own degree of suffering, but all exhausted, circling the first terrace, purging themselves of this world's scoriae."
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"...own degree of suffering, but all exhausted, circling the first terrace, purging themselves of this world's scoriae. If there they pray on our behalf,..."
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"...so maybe in his idea that like this idea of purgatory purging yourself as you hike or as you pray you know because it's..."
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"...from the Western lens, it looks like Xi's consolidating power. He's purging the military because he wants to get everybody aligned with his future..."
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"...stability and the vitality of the revolution is like he's constantly purging his enemies okay very much along the lines of the revolution in..."
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"...a problem. And so you can make the argument that by purging the army. In the late 30s, Stalin made the Red Army more..."
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"Why? Because Stalin was purging all the major leadership of the Soviet Union, creating a lot of discontent, a lot of civil conflict. As..."
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"...will commit succeeding ages prevent them from increasing their significant insights purging themselves of errors and generally progressing in enlightenment that would be a..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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The French Revolution is not introduced as politics first.
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