catharsis

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Tindale, who initially joined to finish the project his wife started, agrees: “The class and performance has become solely my own and shifted to a personal level of catharsis and introspection about the cancer experience.”

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Nato was brought up reading and reveling in political cartoons from when he was a child and for him, there is relief, hope, catharsis in doing political comedy, especially at times where all feels lost.

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I think there’s sort of this desire often, in Western therapy culture, to think that you’re supposed to come to a place of complete understanding and catharsis with your parents as an adult.

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She explained that she turns to music as a kind of catharsis, leading fans to believe that she has new music on the way.

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A co-production with Chicago’s Court Theatre, this rousing revival probes the mystery of Sophocles for one clear goal: communal catharsis.

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