What did Mladen Dolar, Zizek's old friend and comrade, tell us about intellectual friendship?, W. says. What of his friendship with Zizek, Zupancic and the others; what of his old associations with Mocnik and Bozovic as they coalesced into the so-called Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis?
That they began with friendship, and were sustained through friendship! That they never departed from friendship, and a friendship in the face of Yugoslavian academia and Yugoslavian state departments. What chance did they have to get jobs? What, as they fell foul of the university authorities and the state authorities and were unemployed for many years? What, as they aroused their colleagues' suspicion because of their interest in French thought, in psychoanalytic thought, and brought the luminaries of Lacanianism to Ljubljana?
They formed the Journal for the Society of Theoretical Psychoanalysis to publish one another, said Dolar, to support one another in thought. And in the end, what was the Society of Theoretical Psychoanalysis? Nothing, Dolar said. There was nothing going on at the centre. Just he, Zizek and Zupancic drinking in a bar. It was the same with Zizek's series Wo es War, for Verso. It was a vehicle for Zizek of publishing his friends abroad!
Ah, how much we have to learn from the Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis! Do we need to form a journal?, we wonder. Do we need to form a society? No: first of all, we need friends. We need to be friends, don't I understand? And we need to have ideas!
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