Undergraduate Essay Prize Winners
(Established in 2010)
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Julian Novarr, from Columbia University, for their paper, “The Artistic Encounter: Freud and Buber on Art”
Stephen Rex Dames, from Columbia University, for their paper, “A Son’s Shibboleth: Freud, Fatherhood, and the Faith of Psychoanalysis” Levi Solomon, from Colorado College, for their paper, “What Neuropsychoanalysis Ought to be: a Self-Actualizing Path for Psychoanalysis” Elizabeth Lee, from Dartmouth College, for their paper, “Psychoanalysis and Language” |
| 2021 | Molly Lovett from Colorado College for their paper, “Medusa as Subject: A Reimagination of the Myth and Meaning of Medusa”
David Xiang from Harvard University for their paper, “Reverie as a Scientific Object: Marion Milner’s Experiments in Leisure” |
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2019
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Emily P. King of the University of Florida for their paper, “’The Mirror of His Soul’: The Aesthetic Narcissism of Dorian Gray”
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2018
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Kat Gentry from Colorado College, for their paper, “Healing the Healer’s Art”
Runner up: Madeline Clyne from Amherst College, for their paper, “Music of the Spheres: Winnicott’s Communicating Body in Woolf’s The Waves”
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| 2017 | Tung Chau, from the University of Pennsylvania, for their paper, “Masochism in Three Texts” |
| 2016 | John Dall’Aglio, from Brown University, for their paper, “What can Psychoanalysis Learn from Neuroscience? The Neuropsychoanalysis Debate” |
| 2014 | William See, from Colorado College, for their paper, “Owning Experience” |
| 2013 | Caroline Beaton, from Colorado College, for her paper, “To the Lighthouse and the Oedipal Triangle: Impotence, Erotic Degradation and the Oedipus Complex from Freudian and Self-Psychological Perspectives” |
| 2011 | Arthur Schechter, from The College of William and Mary, for his paper, “Wagnerian Volkideologie, Narcissism, and Aesthetics: A Study in the Totalitarian Imaginary”Second prize: Trevor James, from Harvard University, for his paper, “The Living Dying Text” |
| 2010 | Lindsay Smith, from the University of Florida, for her paper, “‘I would not kill thy soul’: The Introjection of the Good Imago in Othello” |
