Slavoj Zizek:Biography
Biography
Žižek was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (then part of Yugoslavia).
He received a D.A. in philosophy from the University of Ljubljana, then studied psychoanalysis at the University of Paris.
In 1990 he was a presidential candidate for the "Liberal Democracy of Slovenia" (Liberalna Demokracija Slovenije).
Žižek is currently a professor in European Graduate School and a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Sociology in the University of Ljubljiana.