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.
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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?…’
- Structure and Genealogy of Perversion in Contemporary Philosophy, Politics, and Art (fundamental research project • September 1, 2020 – August 31, 2023)
- The problem of objectivity and fiction in contemporary philosophy (July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2021)
- Europe as a Philosophical Idea and Political Subject (fundamental research project • May 1, 2017 – April 30, 2020)
- Reconfigurations of Ontology (fundamental research project • July 1, 2014 – June 30, 2017)
- The Philosophy of Crisis: Economy – Politics – Ecology (fundamental research project • August 1, 2013 – July 31, 2016)
- BIOMOT – MOTivational strength of ecosystem services and alternative ways to express the value of BIOdiversity (international research project • September 1, 2011 – August 31, 2015)
- The Concept of the End: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Film (postdoctoral research project • July 1, 2011 – June 30, 2013)
- Conditions and Problems of Contemporary Philosophy IV (research programme • January 1, 2020 – December 31, 2025)
- Conditions and Problems of Contemporary Philosophy III (research programme • January 1, 2015 – December 31, 2019)
- (Re)Konceptualizacija pravne paradigme glede podnebnih sprememb (fundamental research project • October 1, 2023 – September 30, 2026)
- Conceptualizing the End: its Temporality, Dialectics, and Affective Dimension (fundamental research project • October 1, 2022 – September 30, 2025)
- Reality, Illusion, Fiction, Truth: A Preliminary Study (fundamental research project • October 1, 2022 – September 30, 2025)
- Reconfiguring Borders in Philosophy, Politics, and Psychoanalysis (fundamental research project • October 1, 2021 – September 30, 2024)
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 theories on art and culture and the esthetics of new technologies
Prof. Marina Gržinić Mauhler, 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
Psychoanalysis and the social bond
Prof. Alenka Zupančič, Ph.D.,
Prof. Peter Klepec, Ph. D.,
ECTS: 6