Psychoanalysis

Catharsis occurs in art when a story or feeling is felt and thought over fully to the point of resolution. This is very important to human emotional stability. Often life leaves one without this resolution and they experience psychological dissonance or discomfort in conflicting or incomplete truths. It’s like the joke you can’t finish, the fact on the tip of your tongue, the love lost or cut short you could never understand. Real world examples are numerous. These things are enough to drive any human insane. Thus, people need art to supply the catharsis we lose in life or are never given the chance to experience in our own lives. Without it, a state of emotional unbalance can occur and kill as easily as a chemical imbalance from the liver during withdrawals. The body’s natural tendency is to seek homeostasis in everything from physical to mental states. If art can supply this, it begs the question of what advertisements can do-or rather, what they really do. Do ads for products hold equal or greater significance than the products themselves?