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* [[Slavoj Žižek]] was born in [[Ljubljana]], [[Slovenia]] (then part of [[Yugoslavia]]) on 21 March, 1949.

* [[Žižek]] received a Bachelor of Arts in [[philosophy]] and [[sociology]] at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, [[Ljubljana|University of Ljubljana]].

* [[Žižek]] received a Master of Arts in [[philosophy]] at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, [[Ljubljana|University of Ljubljana]].

* [[Žižek]] received a Doctor of Arts in [[philosophy]] at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, [[Ljubljana|University of Ljubljana]].

* [[Žižek]] studied [[psychoanalysis]] at the [[Paris|University of Paris]] under [[Jacques-Alain Miller]], [[Jacques Lacan]]'s son-in-law (from 1981 to 1985). In this period, [[Žižek]] wrote a second dissertation, a [[Lacan]]ian [[interpretation|reading]] of [[Hegel]], [[Marx]] and Kripke. In [[Paris]] besides being sponsored for his thesis by [[François Regnault]] and [[Jacques-Alain Miller]], he went into [[analysis]] with the latter for several years.

* [[Žižek]] received a Doctor of Arts in [[psychoanalysis]] at the [[Paris|Universite Paris-VIII]].

* [[Žižek]] ran for [president of the [[Slovenia|Republic of Slovenia]] ] [a seat on the four member collective [[Slovenia]]n presidency], narrowly missing office, as a candidate with the party "Liberal Democracy of Slovenia".* [[Žižek]] was a candidate for the presidency of the Republic of Slovenia in the first multi-party elections in 1990. * [[Žižek]] was a presidential candidate for the "[[Liberal Democracy of Slovenia]]" (''[[Liberalna Demokracija Slovenije]]'').