The Slovenian School Reading Group is a monthly reading group. Throughout late 2025 the reading group will be focused on Alenka Zupančič’s The Odd One In: On Comedy. This work hones in on comedy with a Hegelian and Freudo-Lacanian lens. In this work, Zupančič goes into the political and subversive nature of comedy, and juxtaposes it to its ideological forms.

Those who sign up will get access to all the live reading group sessions, as well as our recordings. The recordings currently include an in-depth analysis of Mladen Dolar’s A Voice and Nothing More. In this work, Dolar grounds his philosophical theory of the voice as a Lacanian object-cause (objet petit a). The book traverses different disciplines to delve into this underexplored terrain of philosophy and psychoanalysis, including linguistics, metaphysics, physics, ethics, and politics of the voice.

Both these understudied works of the Slovenian School will help us to think the politics of subjectivity. The goal of the study group is to come to a refined understanding of the dialectical and unconscious dimensions of the subject's life in regards to the voice and comedy. Both of these books are urgent in today's world that is decidedly in need of psychoanalytically informed theory.