Live In-Person at NPAP
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New York, NY 10011
Yair Qedar
Gary Ahlskog, PhD
Kathryn Harrison, MFA
Tom Taylor, S.T.M., LCSW-R, PhD
The screening of the award-winning film Outsider. Freud, directed by Yair Qedar, is a journey into the life and work of Sigmund Freud in four acts, combining animation, dreams, and insights from leading psychoanalysts. It explores Freud’s life of marginalization as a Jew in Vienna during Hitler’s rise to power and how these experiences shaped his theories and personal life. Through an intimate lens, the film reveals new dimensions of Freud’s legacy, focusing on his impact on psychoanalysis, Judaism, and the power dynamics of being an outsider.
Yair Qedar is an Israeli filmmaker and cultural producer. He studied Hebrew literature and history at Tel Aviv University and worked for several years as a journalist and editor. In the 1990s, he founded HaZman HaVarod (The Pink Times), Israel’s first LGBTQ+ newspaper. Since 2010, Qedar has been developing The Hebrews, a film series focused on key figures in modern Hebrew and Jewish literature. The project includes 19 feature-length films combining archival material, interviews, animation, and text. The series has been screened widely and has received over 40 awards. In parallel, Qedar has directed filmic works dealing with gender, queer identity, and cultural history. His recent film, OUTSIDER. FREUD, examines the Jewish and outsider dimensions of Sigmund Freud’s life and legacy, in dialogue with psychoanalytic and queer perspectives. His films are shown at cultural institutions, festivals, and universities internationally.
Gary Ahlskog, PhD, is a NPAP Senior member, training analyst, supervisor, former faculty member specializing in Freud. Chair, Book Review Editor and writer for The Psychoanalytic Review. His book reviews on Freud include works by Barnaby Barratt and Bruce Fink. His most recent (2024) essay on Freud is “Continuing Revisions: Reconsidering Freud’s Biography and Rethinking Our Thinking.”
Kathryn Harrison, MFA is a senior MIT at NPAP and has presented in NPAP programs in her Queen of the Dead series, with Melissa Daum. She is the author of 16 books, including The Kiss. She has published seven novels, two memoirs, two collections of personal essays, a travelogue, two biographies, and a book of true crime. She reviews regularly for The New York Times Book Review. Her personal essays have been included in many anthologies and have appeared in Bookforum, Harper’s Magazine, More Magazine, The New Yorker, O, The Oprah Magazine, Vogue, Salon, and Nerve.
Tom Taylor, STM, LCSW-R, PhD, is past President of NPAP, Senior member, training analyst, supervisor, former faculty member. He is moderator/host of NPAP’s Summer CE series. He is in private practice.
After attending the presentation, participants will be able to:
1.5 CE contact hours will be granted to participants with documented attendance and complete evaluation form. It is the responsibility of the participants seeking CE credits to comply with these requirements. Upon completion, a Certificate of Attendance will be emailed to all participants.