Slavoj Žižek
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.
Acting
Movie
Bliss
as Slavoj Žižek
2021
Movie
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
as Self - Host / Philosopher
2006
Movie
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
as Self - Host / Philosopher
2012
Movie
Risk
as Self
2017
Movie
Žižek!
as Self
2005
Movie
Houston, We Have a Problem!
as Self
2016
Movie
Examined Life
as Self
2008
Movie
Catastroika
as Self
2012
TV
Great Minds
as Self
2021
Movie
Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual
as Self
2004
TV
Newsnight
as Self
1980
Movie
The Possibility of Hope
as Self
2007
Movie
Predictions of Fire
as Self
1996
Movie
Thou Shalt Love thy Symptom as Thyself
as Self
1996
Movie
Marx Reloaded
as Self
2011
Movie
Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution
as Self - Author - 'In Defence of Lost Causes'
2009
Movie
Balkan Spirit
as Self - Philosopher
2013
Movie
Post-Socialism+Retro Avantgarde+Irwin
as Himself
1997
TV
Q&A
as Self - Panellist
2008
Movie
Jordan Peterson & Slavoj Žižek - Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
as Self
2019
Movie
Alien, Marx & Co. - Zizek Portrait
as Self
2009
Movie
Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
as Self
2018
Movie
Laibach – A Film from Slovenia
as Himself
1993
Movie
Antigone, How Dare We!
as Himself
2020
Crew
Movie
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
Writer
2006
Movie
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
Writer
2012
Movie
Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual
Writer
2004
Movie
Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
Writer
2019
Movie
Antigone, How Dare We!
Theatre Play
2020
Movie
Professor Slavoj Žižek on the Problem with Online Dating
Screenplay
2024
Movie
Turn On
Original Concept
2018