Slavoj Žižek
Acting • Born 1949-03-21
Biography
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
38 credits
Examined Life
Movie • 2008
Self
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
Movie • 2006
Self - Host / Philosopher
Žižek!
Movie • 2005
Self
Alice, Through the Looking
Movie • 2021
Self
Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual
Movie • 2004
Self
Catastroika
Movie • 2012
Self
Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution
Movie • 2009
Self - Author - 'In Defence of Lost Causes'
Predictions of Fire
Movie • 1996
Self
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
Movie • 2012
Self - Host / Philosopher
The Old and the New
Movie • 1997
Himself
Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
Movie • 2018
Self
Bravo: Laibach in Film
Movie • 1993
Himself
Houston, We Have a Problem!
Movie • 2016
Self
There Once Was a Land of Hard-working People
Movie • 2013
Himself (archive footage)
The New Man
Movie • 2016
Self
Risk
Movie • 2017
Self
Alien, Marx & Co. - Zizek Portrait
Movie • 2009
Self
Thou Shalt Love thy Symptom as Thyself
Movie • 1996
Self
Balkan Spirit
Movie • 2013
Self - Philosopher
Post-Socialism+Retro Avantgarde+Irwin
Movie • 1997
Himself
Jordan Peterson & Slavoj Žižek - Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
Movie • 2019
Self
Marx Reloaded
Movie • 2011
Self
Bliss
Movie • 2021
Slavoj Žižek
Laibach – A Film from Slovenia
Movie • 1993
Himself
Hyperstition
Movie • 2015
Self
The Swap
Movie • 2016
Self (voice)
Antigone, How Dare We!
Movie • 2020
Himself
Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
Movie • 2019
Self
Slavoj Žižek Birthday Special: Politics, Philosophy, and Hardcore Pornography
Movie • 2019
Himself
Hauser and Žižek: Theoreticians of Postmarxist Philosophy
Movie • 2008
Unexpurgated: Slavoj Zizek
Movie • 2024
himself
An Apology for Modernity
Movie • 2021
Himself
The Possibility of Hope
Movie • 2007
Self
Great Minds
TV • 2021
Self
Q&A
TV • 2008
Self - Panellist
Parola (su una data)
TV • 2003
Deep Thought
TV • 2023
self
Newsnight
TV • 1980
Self