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Maja Gutman Mušič, PhD

Maja Gutman Mušič, PhD

Research Associate

Bibliographic research performance and CRIS

Research Areas

  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Media Studies
  • Dream Research and Computational Dream Studies
  • Theories of Consciousness
  • Analytical Psychology

Biography

Dr. Maja Gutman Mušič is an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of consciousness studies, science and technology studies, and media studies. Her research combines artificial intelligence with philosophical and psychological inquiry, focusing on human–machine interaction as well as the psychological dynamics and archetypal structures of dreams. At Alma Mater Europaea University, she teaches courses in media studies and the humanities.

Her co-authored digital monograph 2020 Dreams: Toward a New Understanding of the Dreaming–Waking Continuum (Stanford University Press, 2023) develops an interdisciplinary framework for understanding dreaming as a continuous cognitive and cultural process. Integrating philosophy, media studies, anthropology, and computational text analysis, the work introduces a novel model for interpreting dream experience within broader technological and socio-historical contexts.

In 2021, as a Fulbright Visiting Project Scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), she conducted research on archetypal structures in one of the world’s largest online datasets of dream reports, applying advanced natural language processing methods to examine deep cognitive and symbolic patterns.

Since 2016, she has presented her work at more than 40 international conferences and symposia worldwide.

Education

Ph.D. in Anthropology of Everyday Life – Media Studies
Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis, Alma Mater Europaea, 2016

B.A. in Cultural Sociology
Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, 2005

B.A. in Political Science
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, 2004

Appointments

Research Associate, ZRS Koper, 2021–
Assistant Professor, Alma Mater Europaea, 2025–

Awards and Distinctions

Fulbright Visiting Project Scientist (Department of Anthropology),University of California, Los Angeles
Fulbright Program, 2020–2021

Invited Visiting Scholar, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 2016

Past projects2020 Dreams: Toward a New Understanding of the Dreaming–Waking Continuum
Co-Principal Investigator, 2020

Selected Publications

Gutman Mušič, M. 2020 Dreams: Toward a  New Understanding of Dreaming–Waking Continuum.
Stanford University Press, 2023.
DOI: 10.21627/20232d

Gutman Mušič, M. “The Last Sanctum of Archetypes.” Poligrafi, 2023, pp. 221–239.
DOI: 10.35469/poligrafi.2023.411

Gutman Mušič, M. “Mapping Dreams in a Computational Space: A Phrase-Level Model for Analyzing Fight/Flight and Other Typical Situations in Dream Reports.” Consciousness and Cognition, 2022, 25 pp.
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2022.103428