Pathos (emotion)

Pathos is the clash of refined emotions

with the context of crude experience:

Pathos is often invoked by dramatic events and

their effects on the psyche - the mental processes

which correlate to suffering and anguish, are primary components of pathos: however any refined emotion(e.g.

melancholy, nostalgia) can create pathos by clashing

with a hostile context(environment).

A realization of cognitive dissonance or rejection of

truth is also conductive to pathos, with the idea that

pathos as emotion requiring intense focus on some

idea that reveals the tragedy of a situation - an

inescapable reality that a person has to deal with.