Biography
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.
Filmography
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Movies 32
TV Shows 4
Deep Thought (2023)
Alice, Through the Looking (2021)
Great Minds (2021)
Bliss (2021)
Antigone, How Dare We! (2020)
Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism (2019)
Jordan Peterson & Slavoj Žižek - Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism (2019)
Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism (2019)
Slavoj Žižek Birthday Special: Politics, Philosophy, and Hardcore Pornography (2019)
Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk (2018)
Turn On (2018)
Risk (2017)
The New Man (2016)
The Swap (2016)
Houston, We Have a Problem! (2016)
Hyperstition (2015)
There Once Was a Land of Hard-working People (2013)
Balkan Spirit (2013)
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012)
Catastroika (2012)
The World Tomorrow (2012)
Marx Reloaded (2011)
Alien, Marx & Co. - Zizek Portrait (2009)
Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution (2009)
Hauser and Žižek: Theoreticians of Postmarxist Philosophy (2008)
Examined Life (2008)
Q&A (2008)
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006)
Žižek! (2005)
Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual (2004)
Post-Socialism+Retro Avantgarde+Irwin (1997)
The Old and the New (1997)
Predictions of Fire (1996)
Thou Shalt Love thy Symptom as Thyself (1996)
Laibach – A Film from Slovenia (1993)
Bravo: Laibach in Film (1993)
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GenderMale
Birthday1949-03-21 (75 years old)
Birth PlaceLjubljana, Slovenia
ReligionChristian atheism
SpouseJela Krečič
CitizenshipsSlovenia
ResidencesLjubljana, Slovenia
Also Known AsSlavoj Zizek
AwardsAmbassador of Science of the Republic of Slovenia, Gold Medal of the Círculo de Bellas Artes
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