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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.
Newsnight
1980 · TV
Great Minds
2021 · TV
Q&A
2008 · TV
Bliss
2021 · Movie
Balkan Spirit
2013 · Movie
Risk
2017 · Movie
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
2012 · Movie
The Swap
2016 · Movie
Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
2018 · Movie
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
2006 · Movie
Catastroika
2012 · Movie
Alice, Through the Looking
2021 · Movie
Houston, We Have a Problem!
2016 · Movie
Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution
2009 · Movie
The Possibility of Hope
2007 · Movie
Examined Life
2008 · Movie
Laibach – A Film from Slovenia
1993 · Movie
Marx Reloaded
2011 · Movie
Predictions of Fire
1996 · Movie
Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual
2004 · Movie
Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
2019 · Movie
Hyperstition
2015 · Movie
Antigone, How Dare We!
2020 · Movie
Alien, Marx & Co. - Zizek Portrait
2009 · Movie
Bravo: Laibach in Film
1993 · Movie
Žižek!
2005 · Movie
Thou Shalt Love thy Symptom as Thyself
1996 · Movie
The Old and the New
1997 · Movie
An Apology for Modernity
2021 · Movie
Slavoj Žižek Birthday Special: Politics, Philosophy, and Hardcore Pornography
2019 · Movie
Unexpurgated: Slavoj Zizek
2024 · Movie
The Title Was Shot
2009 · Movie
Jordan Peterson & Slavoj Žižek - Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
2019 · Movie
