Undergraduate Essay Prize Winners

(Established in 2010)

2025 2024 2023 2022	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”
2019	Emily P. King of the University of Florida for their paper, “’The Mirror of His Soul’: The Aesthetic Narcissism of Dorian Gray”
2018	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”
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”

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