By Neža Loštrek,
26 Aug 2019, 19:23 PM
August 26, 2019
A summer school of philosophy
titled “Fail better!” began this Monday with a week of lectures from Slovenia’s
most prominent thinkers, also known as the “Ljubljana school of
psychoanalysis”. In t week that follows, Mladen Dolar, Alenka Zupančič and
Slavoj Žižek will present their views on the foundations of their thought as
well as their current work to a maximum of 120 participants from 17 countries,
most of whom are coming from Denmark and Germany. The three will meet to give
lectures at their Alma Mater, the Faculty of Arts of the University of
Ljubljana, and the working language of all the events will be English.
Žižek will present a series of
lectures titled “Hegel with Neuralink”, which take as their entry point
“Neuralink, an American neuro-technological company, founded by Elon Musk and
eight others, dedicated to developing a mind-machine interface (MMI)”.
Alenka Zupančič’s lectures are
titled “The Real and Its Passions”, which as their “starting and focal point
take the concept of the Real that emerged in psychoanalytic theory (Freud,
Lacan)”.
Mladen Dolar will be speaking
in a series called “What, If Anything, Is the Other?”, which “will attempt to
explore the psychoanalytic notion of the big Other, given the paradox that on
the one hand it is absolutely necessary and on the other, according to Lacan,
it is lacking – how can it be both at the same time?.”
The University of Ljubljana is
currently marking it’s 100 anniversary of existence which is being celebrated
with 100 various events throughout the year. The summer school of philosophy is
perhaps one of the most significant of events due to the global prominence of
the authors who are going to present their thoughts together at the place of
the beginning of their studies.
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