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Slavoj Žižek
Ljubljana, Slovenia
A Slovenian continental philosopher and critical theorist working in the traditions of Hegelianism, Marxism and Lacanian psychoanalysis. He has made contributions to political the…
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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.
Filmography
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- 2026
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2026
Die Macht des Rings
Movie Self - philosopher & cultural critic
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2024
Unexpurgated: Slavoj Zizek
Movie himself
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2024
Professor Slavoj Žižek on the Problem with Online Dating
Movie Screenplay
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2023
Deep Thought
TV show self
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2021
Alice, Through the Looking
Movie Self
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2021
An Apology for Modernity
Movie Himself
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2021
Great Minds
TV show Self
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2021
Bliss
Movie Slavoj Žižek
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2020
Antigone, How Dare We!
Movie Himself
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2019
Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
Movie Self
- 2019
- 2019
- 2018
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2018
Turn On
Movie Original Concept
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2017
Risk
Movie Self
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2016
The New Man
Movie Self
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2016
The Swap
Movie Self (voice)
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2016
Houston, We Have a Problem!
Movie Self
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2015
Hyperstition
Movie Self
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2013
There Once Was a Land of Hard-working People
Movie Himself (archive footage)
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2013
Balkan Spirit
Movie Self - Philosopher
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2012
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
Movie Self - Host / Philosopher
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2012
Catastroika
Movie Self
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2011
Marx Reloaded
Movie Self
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2009
Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution
Movie Self - Author - 'In Defence of Lost Causes'
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2009
Alien, Marx & Co. - Zizek Portrait
Movie Self
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2009
The Title Was Shot
Movie Self (archive footage) (voice)
- 2008
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2008
Examined Life
Movie Self
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2008
Q&A
TV show Self - Panellist
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2007
The Possibility of Hope
Movie Self
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2006
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
Movie Self - Host / Philosopher
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2005
Žižek!
Movie Self
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2004
Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual
Movie Self
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2003
Parola (su una data)
TV show
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1997
Post-Socialism+Retro Avantgarde+Irwin
Movie Himself
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1997
The Old and the New
Movie Himself
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1996
Predictions of Fire
Movie Self
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1996
Thou Shalt Love thy Symptom as Thyself
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