Mladen Dolar
Biographic Data
| ID | 311463 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mladen Dolar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mladen |
| FAMILY NAME | Dolar |
| SIGNATURE | DOLAR M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ljubljana |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1096-0385 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Too Muchness, the Surplus of Immanence, Manatheism
This paper tries to provide some clues and red threads through the magisterial work of Eric Santner. The first part takes the point of departure in his book on Schreber (My Own Private Germany) and tries to lay down a basic narrative that subtends most of Santner's work and can be encapsulated by "the secret history of modernity." This narrative is briefly spelled out through the relationship of Schreber the father (the "surplus father" as the co…
Lifting the Veil
This article traces a brief genealogy of the concept of ideology, focusing on the way that this is a modern concept which presents a break with the traditional philosophical concerns with unmasking delusions and displaying the reality behind them. Ideology pertains to the very reality behind the illusions by virtue of a structural necessity, thus producing a redoubled or reflected illusion. Such was the focus of the classical ideology critique, b…
The Voice as Something More: Essays toward Materiality
The Comic Mimesis
Previous articleNext article FreeThe Comic MimesisMladen DolarMladen Dolar Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreLet me start with a story, which is supposedly a true story, quite apart from its truth-value as a legend. There is nothing comical about it, quite the opposite, although it strangely…
Mimesis and ideology - from Plato to Althusser
The moment one imitates something, it sticks, it marks the imitator, there is no innocent imitation. Imitation necessarily affects the one who imitates, for better or (usually) for worse, and the making of a simple copy of something necessarily affects the original. This is perhaps the briefest way to describe Plato?s concerns about the nature of mimesis in the Republic. The purpose of this paper is to give a brief account of looking at the myste…
The owl of Minerva from dusk till dawn, or, two shades of gray
The paper takes as its starting point the figure of the owl as the emblem of philosophy, it looks at its history and takes up its most significant philosophical use, the notorious passage where Hegel uses the owl as the indication of philosophy?s necessary belatedness. This is the passage which is usually taken as the point of indictment of Hegel?s position and the role he ascribed to philosophy. Hegel?s adage ?What is rational is actual, and wha…
A Ética da Voz
A política da voz
What ́s in a Voice
Tyche, clinamen, den
O Objeto Voz
No começo havia Saussure, mais ou menos daí parte nossa história. Para serpreciso, ela começa muito antes - talvez tenha de fato "desde sempre" começado -, maspedimos licença para tomar como nosso ponto de partida provisório essa dóxa de algummodo duvidosa de nossos tempos.O giro saussuriano tem, obviamente, muito a ver com a voz. Se tomarmos, comseriedade, a natureza negativa do signo linguístico, seu valor puramente diferencial eopositivo, entã…
The Burrow of Sound
The article examines the nature of sound by taking as its starting point Kafka's story "The Burrow," in which an animal, a badger, builds an elaborate and labyrinthine burrow as a bastion of protection against the outside. In this refuge it is disturbed by the intrusion of a sound of which it cannot find the origin. This situation is taken as a sound laboratory, where the nature of the sound and the subjective attitudes it implies are closely scr…
Freud and the Political
Freud and the Political Mladen Dolar (bio) The political in Freud conceals under the air of innocence a most difficult, even impossible topic. Both terms are far from being unequivocal – it is not quite clear, despite the appearances, what is meant by Freud, in spite of, or rather because of, the aura that surrounds his name and the general clamor provoked by his fame. And it is even less clear what is meant by the political, in spite of, or rath…
A Voice and Nothing More
The voice was not a major philosophical topic until the 1960s, when Derrida and Lacan separately proposed it as a central theoretical concern. Here, Dolar goes beyond Derrida's idea of "phonocentrism" and revives and develops Lacan's claim that the voice is one of the paramount embodiments of the psychoanalytic object. He proposes that, apart from the uses of the voice as a vehicle of meaning and as a source of aesthetic admiration, there is a th…
Deconstructing voice
The paper takes its starting point in Derrida's famous essay 'Plato's Pharmacy', one of the birthplaces of deconstruction. After briefly delineating Derrida's argument about phonocentrism and the pharmakon as both the poison and the cure, it tries to argue for a different view about the relationship of voice and writing. If one takes a closer look at Plato's conception of music, one can see that Plato sees the danger not only in the supplementari…
Cogito and the Unconscious: Sic 2
I Shall Be with You on Your Wedding-Night: Lacan and the Uncanny
The dimension of the uncanny, introduced by Freud in his famous paper, is located at the very core of psychoanalysis.' It is the dimension where all the concepts of psychoanalysis come together, where its diverse lines of argument form a knot. The uncanny provides a clue to the basic project of psychoanalysis. And yet Freud appears to be somewhat at a loss about how to make use of this clue. Although he enumerates a number of instances of the unc…
I Shall Be with You on Your Wedding-Night: Lacan and the Uncanny
The dimension of the uncanny, introduced by Freud in his famous paper, is located at the very core of psychoanalysis.' It is the dimension where all the concepts of psychoanalysis come together, where its diverse lines of argument form a knot. The uncanny provides a clue to the basic project of psychoanalysis. And yet Freud appears to be somewhat at a loss about how to make use of this clue. Although he enumerates a number of instances of the unc…
The Burrow of Sound
The article examines the nature of sound by taking as its starting point Kafka's story "The Burrow," in which an animal, a badger, builds an elaborate and labyrinthine burrow as a bastion of protection against the outside. In this refuge it is disturbed by the intrusion of a sound of which it cannot find the origin. This situation is taken as a sound laboratory, where the nature of the sound and the subjective attitudes it implies are closely scr…
The Comic Mimesis
Previous articleNext article FreeThe Comic MimesisMladen DolarMladen Dolar Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreLet me start with a story, which is supposedly a true story, quite apart from its truth-value as a legend. There is nothing comical about it, quite the opposite, although it strangely…
The Voice as Something More: Essays toward Materiality
What ́s in a Voice
I Shall Be with You on Your Wedding-Night: Lacan and the Uncanny
The dimension of the uncanny, introduced by Freud in his famous paper, is located at the very core of psychoanalysis.' It is the dimension where all the concepts of psychoanalysis come together, where its diverse lines of argument form a knot. The uncanny provides a clue to the basic project of psychoanalysis. And yet Freud appears to be somewhat at a loss about how to make use of this clue. Although he enumerates a number of instances of the unc…
Cogito and the Unconscious: Sic 2
Deconstructing voice
The paper takes its starting point in Derrida's famous essay 'Plato's Pharmacy', one of the birthplaces of deconstruction. After briefly delineating Derrida's argument about phonocentrism and the pharmakon as both the poison and the cure, it tries to argue for a different view about the relationship of voice and writing. If one takes a closer look at Plato's conception of music, one can see that Plato sees the danger not only in the supplementari…
A Voice and Nothing More
The voice was not a major philosophical topic until the 1960s, when Derrida and Lacan separately proposed it as a central theoretical concern. Here, Dolar goes beyond Derrida's idea of "phonocentrism" and revives and develops Lacan's claim that the voice is one of the paramount embodiments of the psychoanalytic object. He proposes that, apart from the uses of the voice as a vehicle of meaning and as a source of aesthetic admiration, there is a th…
Freud and the Political
Freud and the Political Mladen Dolar (bio) The political in Freud conceals under the air of innocence a most difficult, even impossible topic. Both terms are far from being unequivocal – it is not quite clear, despite the appearances, what is meant by Freud, in spite of, or rather because of, the aura that surrounds his name and the general clamor provoked by his fame. And it is even less clear what is meant by the political, in spite of, or rath…
The Burrow of Sound
The article examines the nature of sound by taking as its starting point Kafka's story "The Burrow," in which an animal, a badger, builds an elaborate and labyrinthine burrow as a bastion of protection against the outside. In this refuge it is disturbed by the intrusion of a sound of which it cannot find the origin. This situation is taken as a sound laboratory, where the nature of the sound and the subjective attitudes it implies are closely scr…
Tyche, clinamen, den
O Objeto Voz
No começo havia Saussure, mais ou menos daí parte nossa história. Para serpreciso, ela começa muito antes - talvez tenha de fato "desde sempre" começado -, maspedimos licença para tomar como nosso ponto de partida provisório essa dóxa de algummodo duvidosa de nossos tempos.O giro saussuriano tem, obviamente, muito a ver com a voz. Se tomarmos, comseriedade, a natureza negativa do signo linguístico, seu valor puramente diferencial eopositivo, entã…
Mimesis and ideology - from Plato to Althusser
The moment one imitates something, it sticks, it marks the imitator, there is no innocent imitation. Imitation necessarily affects the one who imitates, for better or (usually) for worse, and the making of a simple copy of something necessarily affects the original. This is perhaps the briefest way to describe Plato?s concerns about the nature of mimesis in the Republic. The purpose of this paper is to give a brief account of looking at the myste…
The owl of Minerva from dusk till dawn, or, two shades of gray
The paper takes as its starting point the figure of the owl as the emblem of philosophy, it looks at its history and takes up its most significant philosophical use, the notorious passage where Hegel uses the owl as the indication of philosophy?s necessary belatedness. This is the passage which is usually taken as the point of indictment of Hegel?s position and the role he ascribed to philosophy. Hegel?s adage ?What is rational is actual, and wha…
A Ética da Voz
A política da voz
What ́s in a Voice
The Comic Mimesis
Previous articleNext article FreeThe Comic MimesisMladen DolarMladen Dolar Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreLet me start with a story, which is supposedly a true story, quite apart from its truth-value as a legend. There is nothing comical about it, quite the opposite, although it strangely…
The Voice as Something More: Essays toward Materiality
Lifting the Veil
This article traces a brief genealogy of the concept of ideology, focusing on the way that this is a modern concept which presents a break with the traditional philosophical concerns with unmasking delusions and displaying the reality behind them. Ideology pertains to the very reality behind the illusions by virtue of a structural necessity, thus producing a redoubled or reflected illusion. Such was the focus of the classical ideology critique, b…
Too Muchness, the Surplus of Immanence, Manatheism
This paper tries to provide some clues and red threads through the magisterial work of Eric Santner. The first part takes the point of departure in his book on Schreber (My Own Private Germany) and tries to lay down a basic narrative that subtends most of Santner's work and can be encapsulated by "the secret history of modernity." This narrative is briefly spelled out through the relationship of Schreber the father (the "surplus father" as the co…
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