Potency therapy and literary act

Abstract

The act of writing often results from a cathartic impulse, as suggested in the Letter to the Father, by Franz Kafka. But its inclusion in the artistic universe depends on the attention paid to the peculiarities of literature, as in the case of narrative, coherent representation that comes from the arrangement of facts. As for the reader, a literary work is also able to provide him a cathartic experience, so a therapeutic and emancipatory one.