WHY DO WE CRY WHEN WE ENCOUNTER BEAUTY?

Livestream via Zoom

and

At the Institute

SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2024

2 -5PM/PT

PRESENTED BY: MELINDA HASS, LCSW

FRIENDS MEMBERS: FREE

GENERAL ADMISSION: $30

LIVESTREAM: $25

CANDIDATES/STUDENTS/INTERNS: $15

The line between beauty and sadness is oftentimes 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 and Vermont. Her papers on music and C. G. Jung were presented at IAAP Congresses in Barcelona, Montreal, and most recently Vienna. Her essays are published in Music and Psyche: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Explorations. Haas is past president and still serves on the board of ARAS, the Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism.

Host or Publisher The C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco