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[[Image:Zizek-hand.jpg|frame|right|Slavoj Žižek]]
[[Slavoj Žižek]] (b. 21 March 1949, Ljubljana, Slovenia) is a [[Slovenia]]n [[sociologyphilosophy|sociologistphilosopher]], [[philosophyJacques Lacan|philosopherLacanian]], [[psychoanalysis|psychoanalyst]] and [[cultural critic]].
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.
