catharsis

在强烈的间接体验后释放情绪紧张,使情感得到净化或涤除,如观看戏剧(尤指悲剧)。

A release of emotional tension after an overwhelming vicarious experience, resulting in the purging or purification of the emotions, as through watching a dramatic production (especially a tragedy).

泛指任何类似的情感紧张释放。

Any release of emotional tension to the same effect, more widely.

净化或清洁,尤指情感上的。

A purification or cleansing, especially emotional.

一种治疗技术,通过重建情绪与最初诱因事件记忆或观念的关联,再以充分表达消除该情绪,从而缓解紧张(即精神发泄法)。

A therapeutic technique to relieve tension by reestablishing the association of an emotion with the memory or idea of the event that first caused it, and then eliminating it by complete expression (called the abreaction).