2024 Muriel Dimen Prize

Established by Psychoanalytic Psychology, the board of the Division 39, and the Dimen Literary Executors, the Muriel Dimen Prize commemorates Dimen’s wide-ranging contributions to psychoanalytic scholarship, paying special tribute to her commitment to interdisciplinary thinking and to the study of gender and sexuality. The award is given to a paper deemed exemplary by a panel of judges.

The 2024 recipient of the Muriel Dimen Prize is Carolina Besoain for her paper, “Erotics of the Act. Psychoanalysis and Feminist Activism in Latin America.”

Carolina Besoain (she/her) works as a psychoanalyst in Santiago, Chile. She is a psychologist and holds a PhD in psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.

She is the co-founder of Colectivo Trenza, a non-profit organization dedicated to the practice of psychoanalysis at the intersection of gender studies, decolonial feminisms, and queer studies. Since 2023, she has directed Trenza’s Clinical Network, which has provided low-cost psychoanalytic treatment to people from various regions of Chile and abroad. This year, much of the work produced within this collective space was published in the book La Potencia de lo Colectivo. Siete Años de Trenza, by the Chilean publishing house Cuarto Propio.

She has also maintained a research and academic writing practice, supported by public funding, focused on the relationships between psychoanalysis, gender, sexuality, and space. She can be contacted via email.