
Person
Slavoj Žižek
Acting
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Mar 21, 1949
- From
- Ljubljana, Slovenia
A Slovenian continental philosopher and critical theorist working in the traditions of Hegelianism, Marxism and Lacanian psychoanalysis. He has made contributions to political theory, film theory, and theoretical psychoanalysis. Žižek is a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and a professor at the European Graduate School. He has been a visiting professor at, among others, the University of Chicago, Columbia University, London Consortium, Princeton, New York University, The New School, the University of Minnesota, the University of California, Irvine and the University of Michigan. He is currently the International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London and president of the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, Ljubljana. Žižek uses examples from popular culture to explain the theory of Jacques Lacan and uses Lacanian psychoanalysis, Hegelian philosophy and Marxist economic criticism to interpret and speak extensively on immediately current social phenomena.
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Bliss

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

The Pervert's Guide to Ideology

Risk

Houston, We Have a Problem!

Žižek!

Examined Life

Catastroika

Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual

Great Minds

The Possibility of Hope

Newsnight

Marx Reloaded

Predictions of Fire

Thou Shalt Love thy Symptom as Thyself

Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution

Q&A

Balkan Spirit