
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