The Only Use of
catharsis
in
The Things They Carried
- Partly catharsis, partly communication, it was a way of grabbing people by the shirt and explaining exactly what had happened to me, how I'd allowed myself to get dragged into a wrong war, all the mistakes I'd made, all the terrible things I had seen and done.†
Chpt 16
Definitions:
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(1)
(catharsis) purging of emotional tensions
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, catharsis can reference purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels.