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.
Known for
Credits
Bliss (2021)
as Slavoj Žižek
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012)
as Self - Host / Philosopher
Žižek! (2005)
as Self
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006)
as Self - Host / Philosopher
Hyperstition (2015)
as Self
Houston, We Have a Problem! (2016)
as Self
Catastroika (2012)
as Self
Risk (2017)
as Self
The Possibility of Hope (2007)
as Self
Alice, Through the Looking (2021)
as Self
Balkan Spirit (2013)
as Self - Philosopher
The New Man (2016)
as Self
Examined Life (2008)
as Self
Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk (2018)
as Self
The Title Was Shot (2009)
as Self (archive footage) (voice)
Marx Reloaded (2011)
as Self
Thou Shalt Love thy Symptom as Thyself (1996)
as Self
Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution (2009)
as Self - Author - 'In Defence of Lost Causes'
Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual (2004)
as Self
Jordan Peterson & Slavoj Žižek - Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism (2019)
as Self
Laibach – A Film from Slovenia (1993)
as Himself
There Once Was a Land of Hard-working People (2013)
as Himself (archive footage)
Unexpurgated: Slavoj Zizek (2024)
as himself
The Swap (2016)
as Self (voice)
Predictions of Fire (1996)
as Self
Post-Socialism+Retro Avantgarde+Irwin (1997)
as Himself
Alien, Marx & Co. - Zizek Portrait (2009)
as Self
Antigone, How Dare We! (2020)
as Himself
Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism (2019)
as Self
Slavoj Žižek Birthday Special: Politics, Philosophy, and Hardcore Pornography (2019)
as Himself
An Apology for Modernity (2021)
as Himself
Bravo: Laibach in Film (1993)
as Himself
The Old and the New (1997)
as Himself
Hauser and Žižek: Theoreticians of Postmarxist Philosophy (2008)
Actor
The Pervert's Guide to Utopias (—)
Actor