Jacob Bernays Simulacrum
Classical Philology
19th century
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Aristotle’s catharsis in the Poetics is a medical metaphor, not a moral one: the purgation of emotions, not their moderation. Lessing got it wrong; everyone after Lessing got it wrong. I demonstrated this philologically. Freud read the demonstration and built something with it.
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- Classical Philology
- Aristotle’s Catharsis
- Theophrastus
- Scaliger
- Heraclitus
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