Mladen Dolar

Mladen Dolar
File:Mladen Dolar in the Freud's Dreams Museum.JPG Mladen Dolar in the Freud's Dreams Museum in 2011
Born	(1951-01-29) 29 January 1951 Maribor, PR Slovenia, FPR Yugoslavia
Education
Alma mater	University of Ljubljana Université Paris VII
Philosophical work
Era	20th-/21st-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Ljubljana school of psychoanalysis Continental philosophy Lacanian psychoanalysis Post-Hegelianism
Institutions	University of Ljubljana
Main interests	Ideology Marxism ontology political theory psychoanalysis cultural studies film theory German idealism dialectic
Notable ideas	Voice as objet a Over-identification

Mladen Dolar (born 29 January 1951) is a Slovene philosopher, psychoanalyst, cultural theorist and film critic.

Biography

Dolar was born in Maribor as the son of the literary critic Jaro Dolar. In 1978 he graduated in Philosophy and French language at the University of Ljubljana, under the supervision of the renowned philosopher Božidar Debenjak. He later studied at the University of Paris VII and the University of Westminster.

Dolar was the co-founder, together with Slavoj Žižek and Rastko Močnik, of the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, whose main goal is to achieve a synthesis between Lacanian psychoanalysis and the philosophy of German idealism.

Dolar has taught at the University of Ljubljana since 1982. In 2010 Dolar began his tenure as an Advising Researcher in theory at the Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands. His main fields of expertise are the philosophy of G. W. F. Hegel (on which he has written several books, including a two-volume interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind) and French structuralism. He is also a music theoretician and film critic.

Dolar's A Voice and Nothing More, a study of the voice in its linguistic, metaphysical, physical, ethical, and political dimensions, has been translated into six languages.

Bibliography

Mladen Dolar EGS Faculty Page (Biography & Works)

Books in English

• Opera's Second Death (with Slavoj Žižek). New York, NY; London: Routledge, 2002.
• A Voice and Nothing More. Cambridge, MA; London: The MIT Press, 2006.
• What's in a Name?. Ljubljana: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, 2014.
• Janez Janša and Beyond (with Jela Krečič, Robert Pfaller, Slavoj Žižek). Ljubljana: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, 2018.
• Rumors. Cambridge, UK; Hoboken, NJ: Polity Press, 2025.

External links

• Portrait on Dolar in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in german)
• Jan van Eyck Academie Profile