--- title: "1 Catharsis Quotes By Susan Griffin" description: "1 Catharsis quotes by Susan Griffin. Plus more from Susan Griffin and more Catharsis sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e35/susan-griffin-8475_catharsis_in-this-sense-we-can-render-the-false-me_2336320.jpg" --- > [“In this sense, we can render the false meaning of catharsis which occurs in pornography with a different meaning than the catharsis we associate with Aristotle's definition of tragedy. For in the tragedy, we weep, grieve and feel pity. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-griffin/in-this-sense-we-can-render-the-false-meaning-of-catharsis-which/) [Susan Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-griffin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e35/susan-griffin-8475_catharsis_in-this-sense-we-can-render-the-false-me_2336320.jpg) ## More by Susan Griffin > [Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-griffin/telling-a-story-of-illness-one-pulls-a-thread-through-a-narrow/) [Susan Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-griffin/) > [Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through revolution was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-griffin/is-it-a-coincidence-that-stories-from-the-private-life-became-more/) [Susan Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-griffin/) > [How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times, must shape our lives…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-griffin/how-many-small-decisions-accumulate-to-form-a-habit-what-a-multitude/) [Susan Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-griffin/) > [Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-griffin/just-as-the-slave-master-required-the-slaves-to-imitate-the-image-he/) [Susan Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-griffin/) > [Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-griffin/gender-is-a-way-to-hide-from-the-simple-truth-we-all-tell-hey-i-m/) [Susan Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-griffin/) > [“I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from each other,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-griffin/i-am-not-so-different-in-my-history-of-abandonment-from-anyone-else/) [Susan Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-griffin/) > [ “\[P\]erhaps we are like stones; our own history and the history of the world embedded in us, we hold a sorrow deep within and… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-griffin/p-erhaps-we-are-like-stones-our-own-history-and-the-history-of-the/) [Susan Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-griffin/) > [“The world of fundamental religion does not recognize even the slightest variation in meaning should this meaning fall outside its own definition of truth.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-griffin/the-world-of-fundamental-religion-does-not-recognize-even-the/) [Susan Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-griffin/) > [We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. The red-winged blackbird flies in us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-griffin/we-are-nature-we-are-nature-seeing-nature-the-red-winged-blackbird/) [Susan Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-griffin/) > [Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-griffin/before-a-secret-is-told-one-can-often-feel-the-weight-of-it-in-the/) [Susan Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-griffin/) > [What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-griffin/what-always-seems-miraculous-is-when-aesthetic-necessities-yield-an/) [Susan Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-griffin/) > [A story is told as much by silence as by speech.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-griffin/a-story-is-told-as-much-by-silence-as-by-speech/) [Susan Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-griffin/) > [And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-griffin/and-if-the-professional-rapist-is-to-be-separated-from-the-average/) [Susan Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-griffin/) > [“If these pages are thick with death, think of the battlefield. Corpses in different stages of decay, the slowly dying, moments of death exist…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-griffin/if-these-pages-are-thick-with-death-think-of-the-battlefield-corpses/) [Susan Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-griffin/) > [“We heard of this woman who was out of control. We heard that she was led by her feelings. That her emotions were violent.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-griffin/we-heard-of-this-woman-who-was-out-of-control-we-heard-that-she-was/) [Susan Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-griffin/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/catharsis/susan-griffin/#itemlist", "name": "1 Catharsis Quotes By Susan Griffin", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“In this sense, we can render the false meaning of catharsis which occurs in pornography with a different meaning than the catharsis we associate with Aristotle's definition of tragedy. For in the tragedy, we weep, grieve and feel pity. We are brought to feeling, we experience both meaning and sensation at the same time, tremble in our bodies and our souls. Thus we weep over the death of Iphigenia, of Tristan and Iseult, of Madame Bovary. In experiencing these feelings, we have tapped a part of ourselves which had perhaps been quiet for some time. Which indeed, in this stillness, we were not certain was even there. Or had even forgotten. And thus, when we weep at this tragic playing out before our eyes of a drama which touches our hearts, a part of ourselves we had left in shadow comes back to us and is named and is lived. But pornographic catharsis moves from altogether different needs. For, we know, one does not weep over the death of Justine. One does not feel at all. Rather, one experiences only sensation and mastery. If there is a vulnerable part of oneself that would weep, this vulnerability is projected onto the body of a woman who is punished, and is destroyed there. And so we cease, in this projection, to recognize this vulnerability as a part of ourselves. Rather than reclaim a feeling, or own a part of ourselves once more, we disown ourselves. 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