
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
TV • 1980

Q&A
TV • 2008

Great Minds
TV • 2021

Bliss
MOVIE • 2021

Žižek!
MOVIE • 2005

Hyperstition
MOVIE • 2015

Risk
MOVIE • 2017

The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
MOVIE • 2012

Balkan Spirit
MOVIE • 2013

Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution
MOVIE • 2009

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
MOVIE • 2006

Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
MOVIE • 2018

Examined Life
MOVIE • 2008

Houston, We Have a Problem!
MOVIE • 2016

Alice, Through the Looking
MOVIE • 2021

The Possibility of Hope
MOVIE • 2007

Catastroika
MOVIE • 2012

The Swap
MOVIE • 2016