Oddelek: THE TRANSFORMATION OF MODERN THOUGHT

Asst. Prof. Boštjan Nedoh, PhD

Research associate (PhD) at the Institute of Philosophy ZRC SAZU, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU and co-lecturer on the course Foundations of Psychoanalysis.


+386 1 470 64 72
bostjan.nedoh@zrc-sazu.si

Boštjan Nedoh works at the intersection between contemporary continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, biopolitics, political theology and critical economic and social theories. Boštjan has published articles in domestic and international journal such as: Problemi, Filozofski vestnik, Časopis za kritiko znanosti, Law, Culture and the Humanities, Angelaki, Political Theology, Journal for Cultural Research and Paragraph. He is also the author of the book Ontology and Perversion: Deleuze, Agamben, Lacan (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2019), and a co-editor of the edited volumes Lacan and Deleuze: A Disjunctive Synthesis (Edinburgh University Press, 2017) and Objective Fictions: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Marxism (Edinburgh University Press, 2022). He has also delivered invited lectures at venues such as University of New Mexico (USA), University of Manchester, Lancaster University and Cardiff University.




Selected projects


Books

NEDOH, Boštjan (2023). Eros tesnobe [The Eros of Anxiety] Ljubljana: Društvo za teoretsko psihoanalizo, 236 pp.

NEDOH, Boštjan (2019). Ontology and Perversion: Deleuze, Agamben, Lacan. London in New York: Rowman and Littlefield International (Series Futures of the Archive), x, 204 pp.

https://www.rowmaninternational.com/book/ontology_and_perversion/3-156-bc3b3259-62ea-469f-ab39-6ab1247c7a69

 

Journal articles and book chapters

NEDOH, Boštjan (2024). Between dirty and necessary: the politics of the superego and the jouissance of transgression in Chicago PD television series. Journal for cultural research, vol. 28, issue 3, pp. 268–287.

NEDOH, Boštjan (2022). Materialistična teorija sreče. Filozofski vestnik, vol. 43, issue 1, pp. 129–147.

NEDOH, Boštjan (2022). Horror vacui: praznina in tesnoba, Pascal in Lacan. Problemi: revija za kulturo in družbena vprašanja, vol. 60, issue 3/4, pp. 179–202.

JOHNSTON, Adrian, NEDOH, Boštjan, ZUPANČIČ ŽERDIN, Alenka. Beyond the nominalism-realism divide : objective fictions from Bentham through Marx to Lacan: introduction. In: JOHNSTON, Adrian (ed.), NEDOH, Boštjan (ed.), ZUPANČIČ ŽERDIN, Alenka (ed.). Objective fictions: philosophy, psychoanalysis, Marxism. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. pp. 1–12.

NEDOH, Boštjan (2022). Is surplus value structured like an anamorphosis? Marx, Lacan and the structure of objective fiction. In: JOHNSTON, Adrian (ed.), NEDOH, Boštjan (ed.), ZUPANČIČ ŽERDIN, Alenka (ed.). Objective fictions: philosophy, psychoanalysis, Marxism. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 24–44.

NEDOH, Boštjan (2021). Nadjaz in užitek transgresije: od Hanka Voighta do kapitolskega bizona. Problemi: revija za kulturo in družbena vprašanja, vol. 59, issue 9/10, pp. 69–105.

NEDOH, Boštjan (2021). Nihilopolitics as meta-biopolitics? On Arthur Bradley’s Unbearable life: a genealogy of political erasure. Political theology, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 527–539. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1462317X.2021.1944000, doi: 10.1080/1462317X.2021.1944000.

NEDOH, Boštjan (2020). Anxiety and ontology: toward the Lacanian materialist metapsychology of the affect. Filozofski vestnik, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 177–208, https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/filozofski-vestnik/article/view/9878/9034, doi: 10.3986/FV.41.3.05.

NEDOH, Boštjan (2020). ‘Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds’: science, perversion, psychoanalysis. Journal for cultural research, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 315-333. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14797585.2020.1861811, doi: 10.1080/14797585.2020.1861811.

NEDOH, Boštjan (2020). Marx in objektivna fikcija: mistifikacija dela in presežna vrednost med anamorfozo in družbenim hieroglifom. Problemi, vol. 58, no. 3–4, pp. 29–52.

NEDOH, Boštjan (2019). When tiger leaps into the past: holocaust, history, and messianic materialism in Giorgio Agamben, Walter Benjamin, and László Nemesʼ son of Saul. Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 44-60, doi: 10.1080/0969725X.2019.1655270.

NEDOH, Boštjan (2017). Mass migrations as a Messianic event? Rereading Agambenʼs State of Exception in light of the refugee crisis in Europe. Law, culture and the humanities (online version ahead of the print), pp. 1-18. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1743872117703717, doi: 10.1177/1743872117703717.

NEDOH, Boštjan, ZEVNIK, Andreja (2017). Introduction: on a disjunctive synthesis between Lacan and Deleuze. In: NEDOH, Boštjan (ed.), ZEVNIK, Andreja (ed.). Lacan and Deleuze: a disjunctive synthesis. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 1-12.

NEDOH, Boštjan (2017). Does the body without organs have any sex at all? Lacan and Deleuze on perversion and sexual difference. In: NEDOH, Boštjan (ed.), ZEVNIK, Andreja (ed.). Lacan and Deleuze: a disjunctive synthesis. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 44-55.

NEDOH, Boštjan (2017). Biopolitics before Foucault: on Benjamin’s critique of bare life and Agamben’s theological genealogy of the ‘apparatusʼ. In: PROZOROV, Sergei (ed.), RENTEA, Simona (ed.). The Routledge handbook of biopolitics, (Routledge handbooks). London; New York: Routledge, 2017, pp. 66-77.

NEDOH, Boštjan (2016). Rezilna žica: novo poglavje v politični zgodovini bodeče žice. In: RAZAC, Olivier. Politična zgodovina bodeče žice, (Zbirka Mediakcije, knj. št. 15). Ljubljana: Maska, pp. 161-181.

NEDOH, Boštjan (2016). Kriza in izredno stanje. Filozofski vestnik, vol. 37, issue 3, pp. 127-140.

NEDOH, Boštjan (2016). Alive or undead? Biopolitics between Espositoʼs vitalism and Lacanian psychoanalysis. Paragraph, vol. 39, issue 1, pp. 65-81. http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/para.2016.0184, doi: 10.3366/para.2016.0184.

NEDOH, Boštjan (2016). Politična psiho-pato-ekonomija narcizma: od človeškega kapitala do družbene agresivnosti. Časopis za kritiko znanosti, vol. 44, issue 266, pp. 131-144.

NEDOH, Boštjan (2016). Nadjaz: med prepovedjo in imperativom užitka. Problemi, vol. 54, issue 3/4, pp. 187-203.

NEDOH, Boštjan (2015). Messianism between religion and post-religion: on Giorgio Agamben’s “new politics”. Journal for cultural research, vol. 19, issue 4, pp. 337-351. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14797585.2015.1033842, doi: 10.1080/14797585.2015.1033842

NEDOH, Boštjan (2015). Zakaj so ženske bolj tesnobne od moških. Problemi, vol. 53, issue 5/6, pp. 57-76.

NEDOH, Boštjan (2012). Krivica brez žrtev kot politična razsežnost aisthesis pri Jacquesu Rancièru. Filozofski vestnik, vol. 33, issue 1, pp. 119-131.

NEDOH, Boštjan (2011). Kafka’s land surveyor K.: Agamben’s anti-Muselmann. Angelaki, vol. 16, issue 3, pp. 149-161. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0969725X.2011.621230. (Reprinted in: ZARTALOUDIS, Thanos (ed.). Agamben and Law. London in New York: Routledge, 2015, pp. 497-509).

NEDOH, Boštjan (2010). Sekvenca, hipoteza, zgodovina: Ideja komunizma v luči singularne univerzalnosti procesa resnice. Filozofski vestnik, vol. 31, issue 3, pp. 177-189.

 

Edited volumes

NEDOH, Boštjan (with Arthur Bradley). Perversion and Power, Journal for cultural research, vol. 28, issue 3 (Taylor and Francis), 92 pp: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcuv20/28/3.

NEDOH, Boštjan (with Adrian Johnston and Alenka Zupančič). Objective fictions: philosophy, psychoanalysis, Marxism. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, cop. 2022. X, 261 pp.: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-objective-fictions.html.

NEDOH, Boštjan (with Andreja Zevnik). Lacan and Deleuz: a disjunctive synthesis. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017. viii, 232 pp. HB: ISBN 978-1-4744-0829-5; PB: ISBN 978-1-4744-3227-6 (2018): https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-lacan-and-deleuze.html

NEDOH, Boštjan (with Lorenzo Chiesa and Marco Piasentier). Italian biopolitical theory and beyond: genealogy, psychoanalysis, and biology, Paragraph, 2016, vol. 39, no. 1 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press) 124 pp.: https://www.euppublishing.com/toc/para/39/1

 

Invited lectures and conference presentations

NEDOH, Boštjan. The birth of trauma: Rank, Freud, Lacan. Rank Horror Symposium, Barnard College, New York (NY, USA), 10 May 2024.

NEDOH, Boštjan. Why is woman more anxio-theist than man?: anxiety, atheism and sexual difference. “To be continued?… Philosophy and psychoanalysis today, part 2”, Ljubljana, 16-18 April 2024.

NEDOH, Boštjan. From negation to negativity, from philosophy of language to linguistic materialism. International Conference “To be continued? … Philosophy and psychoanalysis today”, Ljubljana, 16 November 2023.

NEDOH, Boštjan. Paradigms of the superego and the jouissance of transgression. International Conference “Perversion and its discontents”, Ljubljana, 30 May 2023.

NEDOH, Boštjan. The spirits of neoliberalism and the materialist theory of happiness. Symposium with Carl Raschke “Spirits of Neoliberalism”. Lancaster University (Lancaster, UK), 14 March 2023.

NEDOH, Boštjan. Anxiety, ontology, and sexual difference II: subjective and objective anxiety: Kierkegaard and Lacan. University of New Mexico, Department of Philosophy, Albuquerque (New Mexico, USA), 16 September 2019.

NEDOH, Boštjan. Anxiety, ontology, and sexual difference I: on Lacanian anxiety and related matters. University of New Mexico, Department of Philosophy, Albuquerque (New Mexico, USA), 6 September 2019.

NEDOH, Boštjan. Rethinking fiction and objectivity: between philosophy and psychoanalysis. Paper presented at roundtable (with Adrian Johnston and Paul Livingston). University of New Mexico, Department of Philosophy, Albuquerque (New Mexico, USA), 13 September 2019.

NEDOH, Boštjan. Anxiety, Objectivity, Truth. Paper presented at “Truth, Fiction, Illusion: Worlds and Experience” – 2019 conference of the Association for the Philosophy and Literature (with Theory, Culture and Society), Alpe-Adria-Universität, Klagenfurt (Austria), 30 May 2019.

NEDOH, Boštjan. The fourth form of denial: reading Ulrich Beck’s “emancipatory catastrophism” through Freudian lens. Lancaster University, Lancaster Environmental Centre, Lancaster (United Kingdom), 31 October 2018.

NEDOH, Boštjan. The birth of perversion from the death on the cross: Lacan, Žižek and the question of Christian atheism. Lancaster University, Department of English and Creative Writing, Lancaster (United Kingdom), 3 November 2017.

NEDOH, Boštjan. Political psycho-patho-economy of narcissism: from human capital to social aggressiveness.Cardiff University, School of Modern Languages, Seminar Series “Capitalism, Crisis and Ideology”, Cardiff (Wales), 24 May 2017.

NEDOH, Boštjan. When sovereignty becomes fiction: rereading Agambenʼs State of Exception in the light of current “illegal mass migrations” in the Balkan region. Paper presented at workshop “States of Exceptions I – The politics of sacrifice: martyrs and migrants”, University of Manchester (United Kingdom), 11 December 2015.

NEDOH, Boštjan. Kriza: od cikličnosti k nepovratnosti [Crisis: cyclic of irreversible phenomenon?]. Lecture given at the colloquium “Kriza in njen konec” [Crisis and its End], organized by Institute of Philosophy ZRC SAZU, Bookstore Azil and Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, Ljubljana, 24 November 2014.

NEDOH, Boštjan. Perversion in Giorgio Agambenʼs biopolitical theory. Lecture given at the international conference “Italian Biopolitical Theory: Immanence and Subjectivity”, organized by Institute of Philosophy ZRC SAZU and University of Kent, Atrium ZRC, Ljubljana, 25 May 2013.

NEDOH, Boštjan. Biopolitics between alive and undead: on the limits of Roberto Esposito’s affirmative biopolitics. Paper presented at international conference “Matter, life and resistance”, Centre for Critical Thought, University of Kent, Canterbury (United Kingdom), 1 July 2013.

NEDOH, Boštjan. Biopolitics between alive and undead: some remarks on Roberto Esposito’s biophilosophy. Invited lecture at “Italian Studies Research Seminar”, School of European Culture and Languages, University of Kent, Canterbury (United Kingdom), 27 November 2012.

MODULE GENERAL ELECTIVE COURSES

Contemporary philosophy and modernist literature

Assist. Prof. Rok Benčin, Ph.D.,

ECTS: 6

Contemporary theories on art and culture and the esthetics of new technologies

Prof. Marina Gržinić Mauhler, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

Critical Aesthetics and Twentieth-Century Art

Prof. Lev Kreft, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

Formation of the Concepts

Assist. Prof. Aleš Bunta, Ph. D. ,

Assist. Prof. Tadej Troha, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

Fundamentals of Psychoanalysis

Asst. Prof. Boštjan Nedoh, PhD,

Assist. Prof. Tadej Troha, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

German idealism and its consequences

Assoc. Prof. Frank Ruda, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

Philosophy and scientific revolution

Assoc. Prof. Matjaž Vesel, Ph.D.,

ECTS: 6

Psychoanalysis and the social bond

Prof. Alenka Zupančič, Ph.D.,

Prof. Peter Klepec, Ph. D.,

ECTS: 6

Study Subjects
Calendar
Enrolment

Asst. Prof. Magdalena Germek, Ph.D.



magdalena.germek@zrc-sazu.si





MODULE GENERAL ELECTIVE COURSES

Contemporary philosophy and modernist literature

Assist. Prof. Rok Benčin, Ph.D.,

ECTS: 6

Contemporary theories on art and culture and the esthetics of new technologies

Prof. Marina Gržinić Mauhler, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

Critical Aesthetics and Twentieth-Century Art

Prof. Lev Kreft, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

Formation of the Concepts

Assist. Prof. Aleš Bunta, Ph. D. ,

Assist. Prof. Tadej Troha, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

Fundamentals of Psychoanalysis

Asst. Prof. Boštjan Nedoh, PhD,

Assist. Prof. Tadej Troha, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

German idealism and its consequences

Assoc. Prof. Frank Ruda, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

Philosophy and scientific revolution

Assoc. Prof. Matjaž Vesel, Ph.D.,

ECTS: 6

Psychoanalysis and the social bond

Prof. Alenka Zupančič, Ph.D.,

Prof. Peter Klepec, Ph. D.,

ECTS: 6

Study Subjects
Calendar
Enrolment

Prof. Lev Kreft, Ph. D.

Professor at doctoral study programme (3rd Cycle) Comparative study of ideas and cultures at Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU.



lev.kreft@guest.arnes.si

Course principal:

  • Comparative study of ideas and cultures (doctoral study programme 3rd Cycle)


“The Autonomy of Sport: Development and Erosion”, introductory keynote lecture at the conference “Toward a Political Philosophy of Sport”, University of Leuven, November 1–2, 2026.



  • Sandra Meeuwsen in Lev Kreft, “Sport and Politics in the Twenty-First Century”, ttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17511321.2022.2152480 , Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, jesen 2022.
  • Spremna beseda »Partijnost in talent«, v: Miroslav Krleža, Dialektični antibarbarus, Ljubljana: Sophia 2022, 211-228 .

 

  • “Subverzivnost figuralike”, Cukr, št. 4 (jesen 2023), 98-103.

 

  • “The Metaphorical Life of the Garden”, Garden and Metaphor: Essays on the Essence of the Garden (ur. Ana Kučan in Mateja Kurir), Basel: Irkhäuser Verlag 2023, 230-238

 

  • Karel Teige Semenj umetnosti, Ljubljana: Sophia 2023: spremna študija  125-280, strokovni pregled prevoda.

 

  • Vabljeno predavanja “Animals in Sport: Unnecessary Suffering or Entertaining Competition”, 11th Czech Conference Philosophy of Sport, Ceska Budejovice, 21.-23. 10. 2022, »Animals in Sport: Unnecessary Suffering or Entertaining Competition?« objava povzetka – https://webmail.arnes.si/?_task=mail&_frame=1&_mbox=INBOX&_uid=172721&_part=3&_action=get&_extwin=1;   celotno predavanje dostopno kot –  Lev Kreft:  Animals in Sport: Unnecessary Suffering or Entertaining Competition? https//nc.tf.jcu.cz/index.php/s/FPZJy3SwrPD9PdT .

 

  • Manifold Triptych, v The Post-Script Anthology (2010 – 2023), Ljubljana: Aksioma 2024, 292-306

 

  • Avantgarda in konec sveta – Avangarde and the End of the World, tematski sklop – uredila L.K. in Kristina Pranjić, in napisala predglovor 1-3, Primerjalna književnost 48.1 (2025), 1-87.

MODULE GENERAL ELECTIVE COURSES

Contemporary philosophy and modernist literature

Assist. Prof. Rok Benčin, Ph.D.,

ECTS: 6

Contemporary theories on art and culture and the esthetics of new technologies

Prof. Marina Gržinić Mauhler, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

Critical Aesthetics and Twentieth-Century Art

Prof. Lev Kreft, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

Formation of the Concepts

Assist. Prof. Aleš Bunta, Ph. D. ,

Assist. Prof. Tadej Troha, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

Fundamentals of Psychoanalysis

Asst. Prof. Boštjan Nedoh, PhD,

Assist. Prof. Tadej Troha, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

German idealism and its consequences

Assoc. Prof. Frank Ruda, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

Philosophy and scientific revolution

Assoc. Prof. Matjaž Vesel, Ph.D.,

ECTS: 6

Psychoanalysis and the social bond

Prof. Alenka Zupančič, Ph.D.,

Prof. Peter Klepec, Ph. D.,

ECTS: 6

Study Subjects
Calendar
Enrolment

Tiva Vlaj,

Academic Coordinator

Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU Secretariat, Novi trg 2, 1st floor, Ljubljana
01 470 64 52
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MODULE GENERAL ELECTIVE COURSES

Anthropology of Consciousness: On Practices of Understanding Self, Others, and the World

Asst. Prof. Maja Petrović-Šteger, Ph. D.,

ECTS: 6

Anthropology of Technology

Tanja Ahlin, Asst. Prof.,

ECTS: 6

Communities, relationships, events: an anthropological approach

Prof. Borut Telban, Ph.D.,

ECTS: 6

Cosmology of Mesoamerican Societies

Prof. Ivan Šprajc, Ph.D.,

ECTS: 6

Environmental Anthropology and Planetary Issues

Asst. Prof. Nataša Gregorič Bon, Ph.D.,

ECTS: 6

Epistemological pluralism and “decolonizing” methods in ethnographic research

Assoc. Prof. Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen, Ph.D.,

ECTS: 6

Laughing politically: toward the anthropology of humor

Prof. Tanja Petrović, Ph.D.,

ECTS: 6

Public anthropology, social engagement and activism

Assoc. Prof. Ana Hofman, Ph.D.,

ECTS: 6

Study Subjects
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Prof. Marina Gržinić Mauhler, Ph. D.








MODULE GENERAL ELECTIVE COURSES

Contemporary philosophy and modernist literature

Assist. Prof. Rok Benčin, Ph.D.,

ECTS: 6

Contemporary theories on art and culture and the esthetics of new technologies

Prof. Marina Gržinić Mauhler, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

Critical Aesthetics and Twentieth-Century Art

Prof. Lev Kreft, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

Formation of the Concepts

Assist. Prof. Aleš Bunta, Ph. D. ,

Assist. Prof. Tadej Troha, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

Fundamentals of Psychoanalysis

Asst. Prof. Boštjan Nedoh, PhD,

Assist. Prof. Tadej Troha, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

German idealism and its consequences

Assoc. Prof. Frank Ruda, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

Philosophy and scientific revolution

Assoc. Prof. Matjaž Vesel, Ph.D.,

ECTS: 6

Psychoanalysis and the social bond

Prof. Alenka Zupančič, Ph.D.,

Prof. Peter Klepec, Ph. D.,

ECTS: 6

Study Subjects
Calendar
Enrolment

Assoc. Prof. Jan Völker, Ph. D.








MODULE GENERAL ELECTIVE COURSES

Contemporary philosophy and modernist literature

Assist. Prof. Rok Benčin, Ph.D.,

ECTS: 6

Contemporary theories on art and culture and the esthetics of new technologies

Prof. Marina Gržinić Mauhler, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

Critical Aesthetics and Twentieth-Century Art

Prof. Lev Kreft, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

Formation of the Concepts

Assist. Prof. Aleš Bunta, Ph. D. ,

Assist. Prof. Tadej Troha, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

Fundamentals of Psychoanalysis

Asst. Prof. Boštjan Nedoh, PhD,

Assist. Prof. Tadej Troha, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

German idealism and its consequences

Assoc. Prof. Frank Ruda, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

Philosophy and scientific revolution

Assoc. Prof. Matjaž Vesel, Ph.D.,

ECTS: 6

Psychoanalysis and the social bond

Prof. Alenka Zupančič, Ph.D.,

Prof. Peter Klepec, Ph. D.,

ECTS: 6

Study Subjects
Calendar
Enrolment

Assoc. Prof. Frank Ruda, Ph. D.








MODULE GENERAL ELECTIVE COURSES

Contemporary philosophy and modernist literature

Assist. Prof. Rok Benčin, Ph.D.,

ECTS: 6

Contemporary theories on art and culture and the esthetics of new technologies

Prof. Marina Gržinić Mauhler, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

Critical Aesthetics and Twentieth-Century Art

Prof. Lev Kreft, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

Formation of the Concepts

Assist. Prof. Aleš Bunta, Ph. D. ,

Assist. Prof. Tadej Troha, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

Fundamentals of Psychoanalysis

Asst. Prof. Boštjan Nedoh, PhD,

Assist. Prof. Tadej Troha, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

German idealism and its consequences

Assoc. Prof. Frank Ruda, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

Philosophy and scientific revolution

Assoc. Prof. Matjaž Vesel, Ph.D.,

ECTS: 6

Psychoanalysis and the social bond

Prof. Alenka Zupančič, Ph.D.,

Prof. Peter Klepec, Ph. D.,

ECTS: 6

Study Subjects
Calendar
Enrolment

Assist. Prof. Tadej Troha, Ph. D.

Research Associate and Head of the ZRC SAZU Institute of Philosophy, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU. Coordinator of the module Transformations of Modern Thought: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Culture. Co-lecturer on the courses Foundations of Psychoanalysis and Formation of the Concepts.


+386 1 470 64 71
tadej.troha@zrc-sazu.si

In his research, he focuses on Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, particularly metapsychology, mass psychology and the history of psychoanalysis, political philosophy, ethics, the problems of the climate emergency, and the study of modernist literature. He lectures at the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU and the Department of Educational Sciences of the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana.

 

Since 2023, he has been organizing a conference series on psychoanalysis and philosophy with Lorenzo Chiesa (Newcastle University), entitled ‘To Be Continued?…’




Selected projects

Monographs

Intervencije v nepovratno. Ljubljana: Društvo za teoretsko psihoanalizo, 2015.

Niti čudež niti čudež. Ljubljana: Društvo za teoretsko psihoanalizo, 2010.

 

Selected Articles and Book Chapters

“Society Becoming a Group: Group Psychology, Metapsychology and Contemporary Group Formations.” Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society (2026). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-026-00644-2.

“The Choice of Neurosis: Charcot and Freud.” Filozofski vestnik 46, no. 3 (2025): 119–42. https://doi.org/10.3986/fv.46.3.05.

“Kafka in razpršeni Drugi.” Problemi 63, nos. 9–10 (2025): 229–48.

“The Latest, the Last, and the Least: Freud, Salomé, and the Freudian Method.” Problemi International, no. 8 (2025): 263–86.

“Schreber’s Theological Materialism.” In Political Theology and Its Discontents, edited by Boštjan Nedoh and Daniel Cho, 53–69. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.

“Habituated to Denial.” Filozofski vestnik 44, no. 3 (2023): 61–76. https://doi.org/10.3986/fv.44.3.03.

“Emergency Revisited.” Filozofski vestnik 43, no. 2 (2022): 201–22. https://doi.org/10.3986/fv.43.2.09.

“The Objective Construction: Freud and the Primal Scene.” In Objective Fictions, edited by Adrian Johnston, Alenka Zupančič, and Boštjan Nedoh, 198–216. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022.

“No Louder: Beckett and the Dynamics of Monotony.” In Beckett and Dialectics: Be It Something or Nothing, edited by E. Ruda, 173–93. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.

“Living in a Parallel Universe: From Brussels to Orbán, and On.” Filozofski vestnik 40, no. 2 (2019): 201–26.

“On Ambivalence.” Problemi International, no. 1 (2017): 217–44.

“Denkwunderkeiten: On Deleuze, Schreber and Freud.” In Lacan and Deleuze: A Disjunctive Synthesis, edited by Boštjan Nedoh and Andreja Zevnik, 93–104. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017.

 

Selected Translations

Freud, Sigmund. Nova predavanja za uvod v psihoanalizo. Ljubljana: Društvo za teoretsko psihoanalizo, 2023.

Benjamin, Walter. Usoda in značaj: Spisi, proza, fragmenti. Ljubljana: Študentska založba, 2016.

Pfaller, Robert. Umazano sveto in čisti um. Ljubljana: Društvo za teoretsko psihoanalizo, 2009.

Freud, Sigmund. Mož Mojzes in monoteistična religija. Ljubljana: Društvo za teoretsko psihoanalizo, 2004.

MODULE GENERAL ELECTIVE COURSES

Contemporary philosophy and modernist literature

Assist. Prof. Rok Benčin, Ph.D.,

ECTS: 6

Contemporary theories on art and culture and the esthetics of new technologies

Prof. Marina Gržinić Mauhler, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

Critical Aesthetics and Twentieth-Century Art

Prof. Lev Kreft, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

Formation of the Concepts

Assist. Prof. Aleš Bunta, Ph. D. ,

Assist. Prof. Tadej Troha, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

Fundamentals of Psychoanalysis

Asst. Prof. Boštjan Nedoh, PhD,

Assist. Prof. Tadej Troha, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

German idealism and its consequences

Assoc. Prof. Frank Ruda, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

Philosophy and scientific revolution

Assoc. Prof. Matjaž Vesel, Ph.D.,

ECTS: 6

Psychoanalysis and the social bond

Prof. Alenka Zupančič, Ph.D.,

Prof. Peter Klepec, Ph. D.,

ECTS: 6

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Assist. Prof. Aleš Bunta, Ph. D.








MODULE GENERAL ELECTIVE COURSES

Contemporary philosophy and modernist literature

Assist. Prof. Rok Benčin, Ph.D.,

ECTS: 6

Contemporary theories on art and culture and the esthetics of new technologies

Prof. Marina Gržinić Mauhler, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

Critical Aesthetics and Twentieth-Century Art

Prof. Lev Kreft, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

Formation of the Concepts

Assist. Prof. Aleš Bunta, Ph. D. ,

Assist. Prof. Tadej Troha, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

Fundamentals of Psychoanalysis

Asst. Prof. Boštjan Nedoh, PhD,

Assist. Prof. Tadej Troha, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

German idealism and its consequences

Assoc. Prof. Frank Ruda, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

Philosophy and scientific revolution

Assoc. Prof. Matjaž Vesel, Ph.D.,

ECTS: 6

Psychoanalysis and the social bond

Prof. Alenka Zupančič, Ph.D.,

Prof. Peter Klepec, Ph. D.,

ECTS: 6

Study Subjects
Calendar
Enrolment

Prof. Peter Klepec, Ph. D.

Associate professor at the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU, research Advisor at the Institute of Philosophy, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia.



peter.klepec@zrc-sazu.si

Education:

  • 1992 BA in philosophy Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
  • 1995 MA in philosophy Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
  • 1998 PhD in philosophy Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana

 

Teaching activities:

  • 1999-2000 Visiting Lecturer at University of Maribor
  • 2000-2002 Visiting Lecturer at University of Primorska
  • 1999-2004 Visiting Lecturer at ISH Ljubljana
  • 2008-2012 Visiting Lecturer at University of Nova Gorica
  • 2006-Today Assistant Professor and from 2015 Associate professor at Postgraduate School of ZRC SAZU

 

Employment:

  • 1998-Today Assistant, from 1999 Researcher, from 2006 Research Assistant, and from 2011 Research Advisor at Institute of Philosophy ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana

 

Research interests:

  • Contemporary philosophy,
  • psychoanalysis,
  • political philosophy,
  • German Idealism


Lectures abroad:

  • Public in the making? : a philosophical point of view : key-note speaker at the conference “Public in the Making”, Istanbul Technical University, Carigrad (Turčija), 19. oCt. 2018
  • Encountering the real : lecture at conference “LACK 2016 : Psychoanalysis and freedom”, Colorado College, Colorado Springs (USA), 22. apr. 2016
  • What kind of domination is the ongoing economic crisis bringing to the fore? : lecture at Cardiff University, Cardiff School of Modern Languages, Cardiff (Great Britain), 4. apr. 2016
  • How neoliberalism survived the crisis? : key-note speaker at the conference “Thinking Beyond Capitalism”, University of Belgrade (Serbia), 26. jun. 2015

Editorial work:

  • 2004- Editor-in-Chief Filozofski vestnik, member of editorial board from 1996
  • 1993- member of editorial board Problemi
  • 2013- member of international editorial board Filozofija i društvo, Belgrade, Serbia

 

Supervision:

  • succesfully completed Ph.D supervisions: 3
  • succesfully completed Ph.D co-supervisions: 3
  • ongoing Ph.D supervisions: 2
  • ongoing Ph.D co-supervisions: 1
  • mentorships of young researchers: 1

 

Research activities:

  • Current research program: Conditions and Problems of Contemporary Philosophy III (2015-2021)
  • Current research projects: Europe as Philosophical Idea and as Political Project (2017-2020)
  • Previous research programs: Conditions and Problems of Contemporary Philosophy II (2009-2015); Conditions and Problems of Contemporary Philosophy I (2003-2009); Problems and Conditions of Contemporary Philosophy (1998-2003)
  • Previous research projects: Reconfigurations of Ontology (2014-2017); The Philosophy of Crisis: Economy – Politics – Ecology (2013–2016; as leader); Problem of Aisthesis in Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Politics (2011-2014); Art Practices of the 20th and 21st Century and the Political (2008-2011); Antropological Machines, Biopolitics, Production and Genealogy of (bare) Life (2007-2009); Europe and Politics of Translation (2007-2009); Philosophical Problems of Ethics (2004-2007); Virtual and Aesthetic Constitution of (post)Modern Subject and its Politico-Philosophical and Epistemological Implications (2001-2004); The Relationship between Philosophy and Politics in Postmodern (1998-2003); Philosophical Problems of Contingency and Infinity (2000-2002); Socio-philosophical Interpretation of State and Institutionalization and Monopolization of Violence (1995-1998)

 

International collaboration:

  • Postdoc at Université Paris VIII, France, januar to june 1999 (Rancière, Badiou), shorter periods of collaboration with the same institution in 2000, 2001, 2005
  • Collaboration with National Library of Serbia (Svetlana Gavrilović) and Institute for philosophy and Social Theory Belgrade, Serbia 2007-2012
  • Leadership of Slovene-serbina bilateral project »Diskontinuity, radicality and violence« BI-SR/10-11-017 (together with dr. Petar Bojanić), 2010-2011. Co-organization within this frame of three international conferences: “Europe in the emerging world order searching for a new paradigm”, Belgrade 24-26. mar. 2010, “Violence, guerre et État chez Deleuze”, Belgrade 3-5. mar. 2011 and “De la terreur à l’extrême violence”, Belgrade, 8-10. dec. 2011
  • Coorganization of international conference Thinking of(f) the Crisis, organized by Institute of Philosophy ZRC SAZU and Cardiff University, Great Britain, 1. & 2. june 2016
  • Coorganization of international conference “The end(s) of political theology”, organized by Institute of Philosophy ZRC SAZU and Lancaster, University Great Britain, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, 5. & 6. june 2018

Selected publications:

  • Matrice podrejanja. Kapitalizem in perverzija 2. [Matrices of Subjection. Capitalism and Perversion 2], DTP, Ljubljana 2019
  • Kapitalizam i perverzija. 1, Profitabilne strasti [Capitalism and Perversion 1. Profitable Passions], Izdavačka knjižarnica Zorana Stojanovića, Novi Sad 2016
  • Dobičkonosne strasti. Kapitalizem in perverzija 1. [Profitable Passions. Capitalism and Perversion 1], DTP, Ljubljana 2008
  • Vznik subjekta [On the Emergence of the Subject], Založba ZRC, Ljubljana 2004

 

  • Tips and tricks : remarks on the debate between Badiou and Cassin on ʼSophisticsʼ. In: Johnston, Adrian (ed.), Nedoh, Boštjan (), Zupančič, Alenka (ed.). Objective fictions : philosophy, psychoanalysis, Marxism. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022, pp. 124-143
  • Sadizem, Schadenfreude in krutost [Sadism, Schadenfreude and cruelty]. Filozofski vestnik, 2021, Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 155–201
  • World? Which world? : on some pitfalls of a concept. In: BENČIN, Rok (ed.). The concept of world in contemporary philosophy. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2021. Filozofski vestnik, 42, No. 2, pp. 45-69
  • Covid 19, das Unheimliche in nočna mora [Covid 19, the Uncanny and nighmare]. Problemi : revija za kulturo in družbena vprašanja, 2020, Vol. 58, No. 9/10, pp. 111-139
  • On “the Idea” in Badiou. Problemi : revija za kulturo in družbena vprašanja. 2019, Vol. 57, No. 11/12, pp. 275-300
  • Crisis, Europe. In: Šumič-Riha, Jelica (ed.). Rethinking the idea of Europe. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2019. Letn. 40, No. 2, pp. 117-136
  • On Lacanʼs The Triumph of Religion and related matters. Filozofski vestnik, 2019, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 139-162
  • O zastavkih Badioujeve Imanence resnic [On Stakes of Badiou’s Immanence of Truths]. Problemi : revija za kulturo in družbena vprašanja. 2019, Vol. 57, No. 3/4, pp. 107-132
  • On the touch of swear words : swearing and the Lacanian real. In: Komel, Mirt (ed.). The language of touch : philosophical examinations in linguistics and haptic studies. London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, str. 121-135
  • Od strukturalizma strasti do spleta afektov [From Structuralism of Passions to the Web of Affects]. Problemi : revija za kulturo in družbena vprašanja. 2018, Vol. 56, No. 3/4, pp. 189-235
  • Badioujev Platon [Badiou’s Plato]. Problemi : revija za kulturo in družbena vprašanja. 2017, Vol. 55, št. 5/6, pp. 145-183
  • For another Lacan-Deleuze encounter. In: Nedoh, Boštjan (ed.), Zevnik, Andreja (ed.). Lacan and Deleuze : a disjunctive synthesis. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017, pp. 13-31

MODULE GENERAL ELECTIVE COURSES

Contemporary philosophy and modernist literature

Assist. Prof. Rok Benčin, Ph.D.,

ECTS: 6

Contemporary theories on art and culture and the esthetics of new technologies

Prof. Marina Gržinić Mauhler, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

Critical Aesthetics and Twentieth-Century Art

Prof. Lev Kreft, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

Formation of the Concepts

Assist. Prof. Aleš Bunta, Ph. D. ,

Assist. Prof. Tadej Troha, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

Fundamentals of Psychoanalysis

Asst. Prof. Boštjan Nedoh, PhD,

Assist. Prof. Tadej Troha, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

German idealism and its consequences

Assoc. Prof. Frank Ruda, Ph. D. ,

ECTS: 6

Philosophy and scientific revolution

Assoc. Prof. Matjaž Vesel, Ph.D.,

ECTS: 6

Psychoanalysis and the social bond

Prof. Alenka Zupančič, Ph.D.,

Prof. Peter Klepec, Ph. D.,

ECTS: 6

Study Subjects
Calendar
Enrolment
Study Subjects
Calendar
Enrolment