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?...'
Books
- Intervencije v nepovratno. Ljubljana: Društvo za teoretsko psihoanalizo, 2015.
- Niti čudež niti čudež. Ljubljana: Društvo za teoretsko psihoanalizo, 2010
Articles and chapters (selection)
- Habituated to Denial. Filozofski vestnik, vol. 44, no. 3 (2023), 61–76. DOI
- Emergency Revisited. Filozofski vestnik, vol. 43, no. 2 (2022), 201-22. DOI
- The Objective Construction: Freud and the Primal Scene. In: Objective Fictions, eds. A. Johnston, A. Zupančič and B. Nedoh, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022, 198–216.
- No Louder. Beckett and the Dynamics of Monotony. Beckett and Dialectics: Be It Something Or Nothing, ed. E. Ruda, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021, 173–193.
- Living in a Parallel Universe: from Brussels to Orbán, and On. Filozofski vestnik, vol. 40, no. 2 (2019), 201–226.
- On Ambivalence. Problemi International, no. 1 (2017), 217–244.
- Denkwunderkeiten. On Deleuze, Schreber and Freud. In: Lacan and Deleuze: A Disjunctive synthesis, eds. B. Nedoh and A. Zevnik, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017, 93–104.
Translations (selection)
- S. Freud, Mož Mojzes in monoteistična religija, Društvo za teoretsko psihoanalizo, Ljubljana, 2004.
- R. Pfaller, Umazano sveto in čisti um, Društvo za teoretsko psihoanalizo, Ljubljana, 2009.
- W. Benjamin, Usoda in značaj: spisi, proza, fragmenti, Študetska založba, Ljubljana, 2016.
- S. Freud, Nova predavanja za uvod v psihoanalizo, Društvo za teoretsko psihoanalizo, Ljubljana, 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)
EDUCATION
- PhD in Philosophy (Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, 2009)
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
- Elected Assistant Professor in 2016
- Teaches Ethics of Education, Department of Educational Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (since 2017)
- Teaches Formation of the Concepts at the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU (since 2009)
SELECTED LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PAPERS
- "The Latest, the Last, and the Least. Remarks on the Freudian Method" (To Be Continued?... Part II, Ljubljana, 16 April 2023)
- “The Case of Metapsychology” (To be Continued? ... Philosophy and Psychoanalysis Today, Ljubljana, 16 November 2023)
- "The Surge of Metapsychology" (IIT Gandhinagar, 5 February 2023)
- “Rat Man and the Chamber Pot” (Perversion and its Discontents, Ljubljana, 30 May 2023)
- “The birth of metapsychology” (It Thinks, Aalborg University, Denmark, 9 December 2017)
- “No louder: Beckett and the dynamics of pause” (Beckett and Dialectics, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, 1 February 2016
- “Beckett and absolute irreversibility” (The Endlessness of Ending: Samuel Beckett and the Mind, University of Western Sydney, Australia, 30 June 2015
- “What is a collective subject? Freudian Massenpsychologie revisited” (Reason Plus Enjoyment, University of New South Wales, Australia, 13 July 2015
EDITORIAL WORK AND TRANSLATIONS
- Member of the editorial board of Problemi (since 2010)
- Member of the editorial board of Filozofski vestnik (since 2015)
- Edited several edited volumes and translated monographs: Emergency, Ljubljana: ZRC (2022); S. Freud, Nova predavanja za uvod v psihoanalizo [New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis], Ljubljana: DTP (2022); S. Freud, Pet analiz [Five Case Studies], Ljubljana: DTP 2005;
- translated into Slovenian numerous seminal works by S. Freud (Totem and Taboo, Moses and Monotheism, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis), W. Benjamin (Moscow Diary), F. Rosenzweig (Star of Redemption [excerpt]), F. Nietzsche (Unpublished Fragments from 1881), B. Brecht (On the Theatricality of Fascism), D. P. Schreber (Memoirs of My Nervous Illness [excerpts]), E. Bleuler (Ambivalence), and works by R. Pfaller, B. Groys, H. Kelsen, W. Stekel, A. Johnston, L. Chiesa, J. Crary, R. Calasso, O. Marchart, H. J. Bjerre etc.