Unlikely Friendship and Marxist Education in Yugoslavia

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Exploring the unique bond formed over Hitchcock films and philosophy in the 1970s, the chapter sheds light on a friendship marked by shared interests and a standout individual's consistency. It traces the unconventional Marxist teachings in Yugoslavia, shaped by the Frankfurt School and Tito's break from Stalin, offering a contrast to Soviet ideologies. Reflecting on encounters in an Adriatic island's cultural milieu, the narrative challenges traditional interpretations of Marx and Hegel through a thought-provoking thesis on alienation in capitalism.

This week, we present the third episode in our series of interviews with the Troika — after Slavoj Žižek, and Alenka Zupančič . We’re speaking with Mladen Dolar, Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy, at the University of Ljubljana.

Dolar is the co-founder of what has become known as ‘the Ljubljana School’. His principal areas of research are psychoanalysis, modern French philosophy, German Idealism, and art theory. He has lectured extensively at universities in the US and across Europe, and he is the author of over a hundred papers in scholarly journals and volume collections. Apart from ten books in Slovene, his book publications include most notably A Voice and Nothing More and Opera’s Second Death.

We’re talking the voice, May 68, the early days in Ljubljana, Lacan, rumours and gossip, what’s in a name, and the decline of paternal authority.

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Thanks Mladen!