Caliban has been honored with the First IPA Culture in the Community and the World Award 2025. In recognition of this support, we have decided to allocate the awarded funds to the creation of the Caliban New Voices Award, as a way to give back and encourage writing among new generations, reaffirming our commitment to a living, plural, and expanding Latin American psychoanalysis.
Award Guidelines
Who can participate: Analysts in training from FEPAL member societies and ILAP study groups.
Call for Submissions and Frequency: The award will be given annually, coinciding with the theme of the second issue of the journal, starting in 2026.
Contestants for the Prize may not participate with the same work and simultaneously in the Sigmund Freud Prize awarded by FEPAL, nor in any other prize.
Evaluation: Submissions will be reviewed using a double-blind peer review process by an independent committee composed of the FEPAL Director of Publications, a member of Calibán´s Editorial Board, and one representative from each region (North, Central, and South).
Award: Publication of the text in Calibán and a stipend of USD 500 (five hundred US dollars).
Languages and Length: Articles may be submitted in Spanish or Portuguese, with a maximum length of 5,000 words (excluding bibliography).
Submission Format: Submissions must be sent by email in two versions:
• Original article with author’s name, institution, and email address.
• Anonymous version signed with a pseudonym.
Both documents should be in Word format, A4 paper, Times New Roman 12-point font, double-spaced.
Send to: revistacaliban.rlp@gmail.com
Caliban New Voices 2026
The first edition of the Caliban New Voices Award will coincide with the issue Emptiness, to be published in September 2026, accompanying the FEPAL Congress (Chile 2026), whose theme will be: Anguish, Emptiness, and Action.
Emptiness has subtly permeated psychoanalysis since its beginnings and today takes on new resonances. In Freud, although the term itself is absent, emptiness is intuited in the loss that constitutes the ego, in his elaborations on mourning and melancholia, and in the work of libidinal disinvestment.
Later, clinical practice confronted us with the so-called pathologies of emptiness: white depressions, experiences of ego precarity, borderline phenomena. From Winnicott and Green to Recalcati, emptiness reveals itself both as a threat and as a necessary condition for psychic constitution – a clinic of the overfilled , where what is missing is lack itself.
Yet emptiness can also be approached through other lenses: as a space for creation—silence, the blank page—as a philosophical category—the void as a possibility of being, the unspeakable, the uncountable—or as a driving force of life in Eastern traditions, where void and totality do not exclude but complement each other
The award invites analysts in training to express their own voices in the conversation about emptiness as a broad psychoanalytic theme, encouraging reflections on its resonances in clinical practice, theory, art, philosophy, and the challenges of the contemporary world.
Submission deadline: March 30, 2026.