Jelica Šumič Riha is a Slovenia

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n philosopher, political theorist, and translator, associated with the Ljubljana school of psychoanalysis

Ljubljana school of psychoanalysis

Ljubljana school of psychoanalysis , also known as the Ljubljana Lacanian School is a popular name for a post-structuralist and Lacanian school of thought centred around the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Prominent members of the school include Slavoj Žižek,...

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Biography

She studied philosophy at the University of Ljubljana

University of Ljubljana

The University of Ljubljana is the oldest and largest university in Slovenia. With 64,000 enrolled graduate and postgraduate students, it is among the largest universities in Europe.-Beginnings:...

, graduating in 1983. Initially member of the League of Communists of Slovenia

League of Communists of Slovenia

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, she left the party in October 1988, together with 32 other left wing intellectuals, as a protest against the Ljubljana trial, when four civilians were arrested by judged by a Yugoslav military court. In 1989, she was one of the co-founders of the Debate Club 89", which became the intellectual core of the Liberal Democratic Party.

Between 1995 and 2005, she taught philosophy at the University of Ljubljana. She is currently a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

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, and also teaches at the University of Nova Gorica

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She is married to the Slovenian philosopher Rado Riha

Rado Riha

Rado Riha is a Slovenian philosopher. He is a senior research fellow and currently the head of the , Centre for Scientific Research at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and coordinator of the philosophy module at the post-graduate study programme of the University of Nova Gorica.Born in...

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Šumič Riha's research topics include ethics

Ethics

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, political theory, and psychoanalysis

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. She has written extensively on the relations between legal systems, ethics and politics. She has written on the philosophy of Alain Badiou

Alain Badiou

Alain Badiou is a French philosopher, professor at European Graduate School, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure . Along with Giorgio Agamben and Slavoj Žižek, Badiou is a prominent figure in an anti-postmodern strand of continental philosophy...

, Jacques Ranciere

Jacques Rancière

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, and Giorgio Agamben

Giorgio Agamben

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. She also dealt, among other, with the political theory of Carl Schmitt

Carl Schmitt

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 and Hans Kelsen. She has translated works by Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis...

, Karl Marx

Karl Marx

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, Ernesto Laclau

Ernesto Laclau

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, Chantal Mouffe

Chantal Mouffe

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, Jacques Lacan

Jacques Lacan

Jacques Marie Émile Lacan was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who made prominent contributions to psychoanalysis and philosophy, and has been called "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud". Giving yearly seminars in Paris from 1953 to 1981, Lacan influenced France's...

, Claude Lefort

Claude Lefort

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, Lyotard, and others.

Major works

• Realno v performativu ("The Real in Performative", Ljubljana, 1988).
• Pravo in razsodna moč ("Law and Judgement", Ljubljana, 1993), co-authored with Rado Riha
  Rado Riha
  Rado Riha is a Slovenian philosopher. He is a senior research fellow and currently the head of the , Centre for Scientific Research at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and coordinator of the philosophy module at the post-graduate study programme of the University of Nova Gorica.Born in...
  
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• Avtoriteta in argumentacija ("Authority and Argumentation". Ljubljana, 1995).
• Totemske maske demokracije ("Totemic Masks of Democracy". Ljubljana, 1996).
• Singularité dans la psychanalyse, singularité de la psychanalyse ("Singularity in Psychoanalysis, Singularity of Psychoanalysis". Paris, 1998). Co-authored with Michel Deguy.
• Mutacije etike ("The Mutation of Ethics". Ljubljana, 2002).