Special Event: “The Need for a New Freud?”: Screening of Award-Winning Film Outsider. Freud directed by Yair Qedar with Presentation to Follow by Philip Herschenfeld, M.D.
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October 18, 2025
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**This event will be held in person**
Special Event: “The Need for a New Freud?”: Screening of Award-Winning Film Outsider. Freud Directed by Yair Qedar with Presentation to Follow by Philip Herschenfeld, M.D.
Saturday, October 18th, 2025
7:00 – 9:30 PM (EST)
Location: Marianne & Nicholas Young Auditorium
247 E 82nd St., NYC 10028
Introduction: George Makari, M.D.
Presenter: Philip Herschenfeld, M.D.
Discussants: Yair Qedar, filmmaker & George Makari, M.D.
Please join us for a special screening of the award winning film Outsider.Freud directed by Yair Qedar. Outsider.Freud 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.
**Click HERE to view the trailer.**
After the film, Philip Herschenfeld, M.D. will present on whether there is, as some in the psychoanalytic community feel, a need for a “new Freud.” Although Freud served as an identificatory example for the field, his thinking evolved over time and our understanding of it continues to change. Psychoanalysis has evolved over time to meet the changing needs of society. The evolution of evolution of classical psychoanalytic thinking all too often assumed to have remained fundamentally static. Dr. Herschenfeld will explore the need for a “new Freud” and if this is a proper way to conceptualize this evolution in psychoanalysis.
Please join us for this exciting evening!
NO SALES AT THE DOOR. PLEASE BUY YOUR TICKETS IN ADVANCE.
1 Contact Hour, 1 CME/CE credit will be offered. See details below.
General Admission: $50
Student Admission: $35
Free Admission for current NYPSI members/students and HFI Candidates
Please note registration closes at 5 PM on Thursday, October 16th.
- Blass, R. B. (2016) Understanding Freud’s Conflicted View of the Object-Relatedness of Sexuality and its Implications for Contemporary Psychoanalysis: A Re-Examination of Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 97:591-613.
- Solms, M. (2020). New project for a scientific psychology: General scheme. Neuropsychoanalysis, 22(1–2), 5–35.
- Ogden, T. H. (2020) Toward a Revised Form of Analytic Thinking and Practice: The Evolution of Analytic Theory of Mind. Psychoanalytic Quarterly 89:219-243.
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.
George Makari, M.D. Historian, essayist, psychoanalyst, and psychiatrist is Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry: History, Policy, and the Arts, and Professor of Psychiatry at Weill-Cornell Medical College. His latest book, Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia (W.W Norton, 2021) was the recipient of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize, the Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Prize, was a New York Times Editor’s Choice and a Bloomberg Book of the Year. It was preceded by two award-winning histories, Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind (W.W Norton, 2015) and Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis (HarperCollins, 2008). His books have been or are being translated into thirteen languages. His essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Raritan as well as many scholarly and literary journals. The recipient of numerous honors, Dr. Makari was presented with the Benjamin Rush Award from the American Psychiatric Association. A graduate of Brown University, Cornell University Medical College, and the Columbia University’s Psychoanalytic Center, he is a Guest Investigator at Rockefeller University and lives with his family in New York City.
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Philip Herschenfeld, M.D. is a graduate of Albert Einstein College of Medicine and of the Psychiatry Residency at that institution. He has taught psychiatric residents as a faculty member at Albert Einstein and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Herschenfeld has been affiliated with NYPSI since 1975 as a candidate, graduate, faculty member, training analyst and Dean of Education. His major interest has always been the practice and teaching of clinical psychoanalytic work. Dr. Herschenfeld was a somewhat indifferent (resistant?) student as an adolescent. He was mostly self-educated, therefore, through immersion in 19th century Russian literature. Since then he has been interested in artistic (literary and visual) as well as religious expression and interpretation of culture.
CONTINUING EDUCATION
Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
- Assess how psychoanalytic thinking has evolved over time.
- Describe how the evolution of psychoanalytic thinking can be applied in clinical scenarios.
Psychologists
New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY – 0073.
New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education programs for psychologists. New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content. DISCLOSURE: None of the planners and presenters of this CE program has any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Social Workers
New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW – 0317.
The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME’s identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.
Venue: NYPSI's Marianne & Nicholas Young Auditorium
Description:
Second Floor, 247 East 82nd Street | New York, NY 10028