“Why Do We Cry When We Encounter Beauty?” with Melinda Haas, LCSW
Date – April 16th, 2025
Time – 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Cost – $45
On Zoom
The line between beauty and sadness is often blurred or nonexistent. Each of them seems to engender a kind of overflowing that creates or contributes to our tears. In The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows we learn that the original meaning of the word “sadness” was fullness, as in satis. Through music, poetry and thought, this presentation will tease apart depression or despair from sadness. In so doing it will become clear how depression actually prevents the experiencing of sadness and beauty. Through clinical and musical example we will try to understand how beauty is capable of reaching into the deepest, fullest, and perhaps saddest parts of our being.
MELINDA HAAS, LCSW, is a Jungian analyst and musician. She practices, teaches and supervises in New York, Vermont and Massachusetts. Her papers on music and C. G. Jung have been presented at IAAP congresses in Barcelona, Montreal, and Vienna. Presently she is writing a paper for the Zurich Congress this summer. Her essays are published in Music and Psyche: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Explorations. Ms Haas is past president and still serves on the board of ARAS, the Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism.
Date and Time:
Wednesday, April 16th, 2025
7 pm to 8:30 pm, (EST) via Zoom
Cost: $45
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