Nina Krajnik is a psychoanalyst in Ljubljana and Paris. She is the president and founder of SALP, editor-in-chief of the journal Object of desire, and the book series Juno. She is the head of a department of Lacanian psychoanalysis at the University of Sigmund Freud – Ljubljana (AK, Vienna) and the organiser of the psychoanalytic training programme Acheron. She is in charge of the Section for socio-political questions of SALP.
Krajnik studied at University Paris VIII – Vincennes-Saint Denis and received her analytical training within the framework of L’École de la Cause freudienne (ECF). Krajnik holds a PhD in Philosophy and a MA in cultural studies. In 2015, she was a researcher at the James Joyce Foundation in Zürich and a participant of Joyce’s School in Dublin and Trieste. Between 2011 and 2014 she carried out an academic research in Australia and New Zealand.
She is a volunteer in humanitarian causes in Europe and worldwide. She has worked on several missions of Service Civil International (SCI-Voluntariat), Seeds-Iceland, and BASIDA, raising awareness about environmental and peacekeeping issues and providing medical and psycho-social support to children, HIV-positives, drug addicted people, and people with disabilities.
A member of New Lacanian School (NLS), and World Association of Psychoanalysis (AMP), Krajnik also organises seminars of Champ Freudien, and acts as secretary of the international Lacanian political movement ZADIG (Zero abjection democratic international group) – Ljubljana.