Mladen Dolar (1951) is a professor and scientific advisor at the University of Ljubljana. His main fields of interest include German classical philosophy, psychoanalysis, contemporary French philosophy and art theory. He furthered his studies in Paris and London, worked for a year as a researcher at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut in Essen, was for three years advisor-mentor at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, has been a guest professor at the University of Chicago since 2013 and the European Graduate School in Switzerland since 2015. In addition to this he has lectured at numerous universities in the US and Europe and is author of over one hundred and fifty articles published in scientific journals and magazines. He has published twenty books in Slovene, from Strukture fašističnega gospostva (The Structures of Fascist Economy) (DDU Univerzum, 1982) to Od kod prihaja oblast? (Where Does Authority Come From) (Društvo za teoretsko psihoanalizo, 2021). Worth noting among his publications abroad are especially A Voice and Nothing More (MIT 2006, translated into twelve languages) and Opera’s Second Death (with Slavoj Žižek, Routledge 2001). He is the co-founder of what became known in the world as the “Ljubljana Lacanian School.”