Before revision: The first recorded uses of the term being used in the mental sense was by Aristotle in the Politics and Poetics, comparing the effects of music and tragedy on the mind of a spectator to the effect of catharsis on the body.Aristotle, Poetics, 1449b The term is additionally used in Greek to refer to the spiritual purging process that occurs in the Christian Purgatory .
After revision: The first recorded uses of the term being used in the mental sense was by Aristotle in the Politics and Poetics, comparing the effects of music and tragedy on the mind of a spectator to the effect of catharsis on the body.Aristotle, Poetics, 1449b The term is additionally used in Greek to refer to the spiritual purging process that occurs in the Catholic doctrine of purgatory .