Acting · Ljubljana, Slovenia · Born March 21, 1949
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.
MovieUnexpurgated: Slavoj Zizek
2024
as himself
Deep Thought
2023
as self
MovieAlice, Through the Looking
2021
as Self
MovieAn Apology for Modernity
2021
as Himself
TVGreat Minds
2021
as Self
MovieBliss
2021
as Slavoj Žižek
MovieAntigone, How Dare We!
2020
as Himself
MovieHappiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
2019
as Self
MovieJordan Peterson & Slavoj Žižek - Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
2019
as Self
MovieSlavoj Žižek Birthday Special: Politics, Philosophy, and Hardcore Pornography
2019
as Himself
MovieLove Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
2018
as Self
MovieRisk
2017
as Self
The New Man
2016
as Self
MovieThe Swap
2016
as Self (voice)
MovieHouston, We Have a Problem!
2016
as Self
MovieHyperstition
2015
as Self
There Once Was a Land of Hard-working People
2013
as Himself (archive footage)
MovieBalkan Spirit
2013
as Self - Philosopher
MovieThe Pervert's Guide to Ideology
2012
as Self - Host / Philosopher
MovieCatastroika
2012
as Self
MovieMarx Reloaded
2011
as Self
MovieTerror! Robespierre and the French Revolution
2009
as Self - Author - 'In Defence of Lost Causes'
MovieAlien, Marx & Co. - Zizek Portrait
2009
as Self
MovieThe Title Was Shot
2009
as Self (archive footage) (voice)
Hauser and Žižek: Theoreticians of Postmarxist Philosophy
2008
MovieExamined Life
2008
as Self
TVQ&A
2008
as Self - Panellist
MovieThe Possibility of Hope
2007
as Self
MovieThe Pervert's Guide to Cinema
2006
as Self - Host / Philosopher
MovieŽižek!
2005
as Self
MovieSlavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual
2004
as Self
Parola (su una data)
2003
Post-Socialism+Retro Avantgarde+Irwin
1997
as Himself
MovieThe Old and the New
1997
as Himself
MoviePredictions of Fire
1996
as Self
MovieThou Shalt Love thy Symptom as Thyself
1996
as Self
MovieLaibach – A Film from Slovenia
1993
as Himself
MovieBravo: Laibach in Film
1993
as Himself
TVNewsnight
1980
as Self
The Pervert's Guide to Utopias
