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.
Examined Life
(Self)
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
(Self - Host / Philosopher)
Žižek!
(Self)
Alice, Through the Looking
(Self)
Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual
(Self)
Catastroika
(Self)
Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution
(Self - Author - 'In Defence of Lost Causes')
Predictions of Fire
(Self)
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
(Self - Host / Philosopher)
The Old and the New
(Himself)
Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
(Self)
Bravo: Laibach in Film
(Himself)
Houston, We Have a Problem!
(Self)
There Once Was a Land of Hard-working People
(Himself (archive footage))
The New Man
(Self)
Risk
(Self)
Alien, Marx & Co. - Zizek Portrait
(Self)
Thou Shalt Love thy Symptom as Thyself
(Self)
Balkan Spirit
(Self - Philosopher)
Post-Socialism+Retro Avantgarde+Irwin
(Himself)
Jordan Peterson & Slavoj Žižek - Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
(Self)
Marx Reloaded
(Self)
Bliss
(Slavoj Žižek)
Laibach – A Film from Slovenia
(Himself)
Hyperstition
(Self)
The Swap
(Self (voice))
Antigone, How Dare We!
(Himself)
Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
(Self)
Slavoj Žižek Birthday Special: Politics, Philosophy, and Hardcore Pornography
(Himself)
Hauser and Žižek: Theoreticians of Postmarxist Philosophy
Unexpurgated: Slavoj Zizek
(himself)
Great Minds
(Self)
Q&A
(Self - Panellist)