BIBLIOGRAPHY
The exposition of the meaning of catharsis is concentrated
on
Aristotelian catharsis and its different interpretations.
A more
detailed argument is to be found in Teddy Brunius,
Inspiration and Katharsis (Uppsala, 1966), together
with
references to the literature. The interpretation of M. D.
Petrusevski is in Ziva Antika, Antiquité
Vivante,
4, 2
(Skoplje, Yugoslavia, 1954). A detailed
summary is given in
French. Petrusevski's arguments are partly derived
from
Heinrich Otte, Kennt Aristoteles die
sogenannte tragische
Katharsis? (Berlin, 1912). The
latest text of the Poetics of
Aristotle is
edited by Rudolf Kassel (Oxford, 1965). For the
Nicomachean Ethics, see the Oxford translation by W.
D.
Ross (Oxford, 1925), Vol. 9. A good bibliography and com-
mentary is given in D. W. Lucas, Aristotle's Poetics. Intro-
duction, Commentary and Appendixes (Oxford, 1968).
The
interpretation of Gerald F. Else is to be found in his Aris-
totle's Poetics:
The Argument (Cambridge, Mass., 1957). The
relation between
Platonic and Aristotelian catharsis is dis-
cussed in G. Finsler, Platon und die
aristotelische Poetik
(Berlin, 1900). Cathartic
traditions are described and dis
cussed in Louis Moulinier, Le Pur et l'impur
dans la pensée
des Grecs (Paris, 1952). Theodore
Waechter discussed early
cathartic ritual in Religionsgeschichtliche Versuchen und
Vorarbeiten
(1910), Vol. X. Asclepian therapy is found in
Rudolf Herzog, Die Wunderheilungen von Epidauros, Philo-
logus, Supplementband 22 (Leipzig, 1931), and by Emma
and Ludwig Edelstein in Asclepius, Vols 1 and 2 (Baltimore,
1945).
Important contributions to the interpretation of
Aristotelian catharsis
have been made by E. P. Papanoutsos,
La Catharsis des Passions d'après
Aristote (Athens, 1953),
by Wolfgang Schadewaldt, Hellas und Hesperien (Zürich
and
Stuttgart, 1960), pp. 346-88, and H. D. F. Kitto,
“Catharsis,” in The Classical
Tradition, Studies in Honor of
Harry Caplan, ed. L. Wallach
(Ithaca, 1966), pp. 133-47.
The connection between psychoanalysis and
Aristotelian
catharsis is discussed by Eva Berczeller in
“The Aesthetic
Feeling and Aristotle's Catharsis
Theory,” The Journal of
Psychology,
65 (1967), 261-71.
TEDDY BRUNIUS
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