Catharsis
Much disputed term used by Aristotle in his Poetics where he suggests that tragedy should purge the emotions of pity and fear and, hence, lead to a catharsis.
[n] (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions
[n] purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels
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abreaction, abstersion, acting-out, bloody flux, BM, bowdlerization, bowel movement, cleaning, cleansing, crap, defecation, dejection, deliverance, detersion, diarrhea, discharge, dry cleaning, dysentery, emotional release, evacuation, expurgation, flux,