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Žižek is well-known for his employing [[Lacanian psychoanalysis|Lacanian psychoanalytic theory]] in his readings of [[popular culture]] (from the [[films]] of [[Alfred Hitchcock]] and [[David Lynch]], to the [[literature]] of [[Kafka]] or [[Shakespeare]]).
In addition, he writes on a great range of topics, such as [[fundamentalism]], [[tolerance]], [[multiculturalism]], [[political correctness]], [[globalization]], [[human rights]], [[political subjectivity]], [[cyberspace]], [[post-modernism]], [[Leninism]], etc.
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==Biography==
Žižek is currently a professor in [[European Graduate School]] and a post-doctoral researcher at the [[Institute of Sociology]] in the University of Ljubljiana.
==Ideas== A highly prolific and entertaining writer, Z•iz•ek is probably one of the most astute observers of postmodern culture, both high and low. In breathtaking analyses of such diverse authors as Lacan, Hegel, Marx, Schelling, and Hitchcock, Wagner, Raymond Chandler and Ridley Scott, Z•iz•ek traces the structure of fantasy as it is produced by and resists late capitalist forms of power. What defines these structures of power is the demise of a formally neutral Law (the Lacanian Master Signifier) in favor of Z•iz•ek’s articular appropriation of the Freudian superego; a structure of power that demands a transgression of the Law, its suspension, and the identification with perverse enjoyment or jouissance. God has, as Z•iz•ek puts it, left the symbolic order and reverted to the Real. The rise of the Super-ego bespeaks the decline of traditional paternal authority and finds its expression in two ‘‘figures’’: the maternal superego who blocks man’s access to normal enjoyment (this, according to Z•iz•ek, is what defines the Hitchcockian universe) and the anal-sadistic father who is not the agent of the symbolic Law, of repression, but he who is too alive, who ‘‘knows too much,’’ who commands his own enjoyment at the expense of the now destitute subject. Such super-egoic power produces the postmodern subject and object, and it is these that are the focus of •iz•ek’s analysis. The subject is the ‘pathological Narcissus,’’ the successor to both the Oedipal, autonomous individual of liberalism and the heteronomous organization man of imperial capitalism. The narcissistic subject has abandoned the integration into the symbolic order and instead plays a multiplicity of roles according to rules of a game. Conformism viewed as being beyond the law exacts, however, greater pressures from an ever more punitive super-ego. Z•iz•ek’s most important contributions are to post-Marxist theory, in particular to the theory of ideology and fantasy, as well as to the interpretation of popular and mass culture. In the latter area, his readings of Hitchcock’s films are of special interest. ==BibliographyBooks==
<blockquote>''Main Page: [[Books by Slavoj Žižek|Bibliography]]''</blockquote>
*[[The Parallax View]]. Cambridge: MIT Press. 2006.
*[[The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology]]. Eric Santner, Keith Reinhard and SZ. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2006.
==Articles by Slavoj Žižek==
<blockquote>''Main Page: [[Articles by Slavoj Žižek]]''</blockquote>
* [[Freud Lives!]] ''London Review of Books''. Volume. 28 Number 10. May 25, 2006. <http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n10/zize01_.html>
* [[The Liberal Communists of Porto Davos]]. ''In These Times''. April 11, 2006. <http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2574/>
=====Articles about Slavoj Žižek=====
<blockquote>''Main Page: [[Articles about Slavoj Žižek]]''</blockquote>
==External Links==
[http://www.adamkotsko.com/zizeklinks.htm Collection of Zizek links]
[[Category:Philosophy|Žižek, Slavoj]]
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