David L. Eng, PhD and Shinhee Han, PhD brought psychoanalytic scholarship and Asian American subjectivity together in their groundbreaking paper, A Dialogue in Racial Melancholia (2000). They have continued to break ground with their book, Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans (2019) and with their most recent publication, Racial Rage, Racial Guilt: The Uses of Anger in Asian America (2024).
In recognition and expansion of their work, The Asian American Center for Psychoanalysis (TAACP) is honored to announce The Eng & Han Essay Prize to recognize an original, innovative psychoanalytic paper on the “social and psychic lives” of Asian and Asian Americans.
The selected essay will be awarded a cash prize of $1,000, an invitation for the author to present at a TAACP online event, and the possibility of the paper being published in a psychoanalytic journal.
No. All are welcome to submit as long as the subject of the paper is the psychic and social lives of Asians and Asian Americans
Some ideas:
TAACP will provide select programming and short courses to support the process to be announced throughout 2025. See above under inaugural year special programming. But TAACP and the selection committee are unable to provide direct writing or editorial assistance. A suggestion: form your own reading and writing groups with colleagues, folks you have met at TAACP classes and events, etc.
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