Slavoj Žižek
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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.
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movieBliss
2021
Slavoj Žižek
movieRisk
2017
Self
movieThe Swap
2016
Self (voice)
There Once Was a Land of Hard-working People
2013
Himself (archive footage)
movieBalkan Spirit
2013
Self - Philosopher
movieThe Pervert's Guide to Ideology
2012
Self - Host / Philosopher
movieTerror! Robespierre and the French Revolution
2009
Self - Author - 'In Defence of Lost Causes'
movieThe Title Was Shot
2009
Self (archive footage) (voice)
tvQ&A
2008
Self - Panellist
movieThe Pervert's Guide to Cinema
2006
Self - Host / Philosopher
movieŽižek!
2005
Self
movieThe Old and the New
1997
Himself
tvNewsnight
1980
Self
Writing7
movieAntigone, How Dare We!
2020
Theatre Play
Turn On
2018
Original Concept