Oslo Poesifestival 2009

(born 1951) is a Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist, film critic and expert in psychoanalysis. Dolar was born in in Maribor as the son of the famous 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 Mocnik and Alenka Zupancic, 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 field of expertiese are the philosophy of Georg 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 famous as a music theoretician and film critic.