**“They vainly purify themselves with blood when they are defiled with it, as if a man who had stepped into mud were to wash himself with mud.”** Before it had anything to do with art, catharsis meant washing. You cleaned yourself before approaching the temple, because whatever you were carrying could not come in with you. Plato borrowed the word for philosophy itself, the soul working free of the body, and then turned around and said that poetry does the opposite. That it waters the passions instead of drying them out. His student used the same word to describe what tragedy does for us, and…
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