Mladen Dolar (born 29 January 1951^[1]) is a Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist, film critic and expert in psychoanalysis.

Dolar was born in Maribor as the son of the literary critic Jaro Dolar. In 1978 he graduated in Philosophy and French language at the University of Ljubljana. He later studied at the University of Paris VII and the University of Westminster.

Together with Slavoj Žižek, Rastko Močnik and Alenka Zupančič, Dolar is considered the co-founder of the Ljubljana school of psychoanalysis, whose main goal is to achieve a synthesis between Lacanian psychoanalysis and the philosophy of German idealism.

Dolar has taught at the University of Ljubljana since 1982. His main fields of expertise are the philosophy of G. W. F. Hegel (on which he has written several books, including a two-volume interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind) and French structuralism. He is also a music theoretician and film critic.

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• Portrait on Dolar in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in german)
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