Slavoj Zizek

Slavoj Zizek is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst, and political activist. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and the author of numerous books on dialectical materialism, critique of ideology and art.

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Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

by Slavoj Zizek

Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to truly enjoy what we have. Slavoj Žižek's guide to surplus... (more)

Everything You Have Always Wanted to Know About Lacan... But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock: Second Edition

Edited by Slavoj Zizek

A compilation of papers applying the insights of Lacan to Hitchcock's movies and vice versa. Hitchcock gets onto the analyst's couch in this extraordinary volume of case studies. The contributors... (more)

Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan Through Popular Culture

by Slavoj Zizek

A virtuoso reading of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory through the works of popular culture, from horror fiction and detective thrillers to popular romances and Hitchcock films. (more)

The Abyss of Freedom

by Slavoj Zizek

This book contains the first English version of the second draft (1813) of Schelling's 'Die Weltalter' ('Ages of the World'). Zizek provides a commentary on this work, focusing on the notion that... (more)

Cogito and the Unconscious

Edited by Slavoj Zizek

The Cartesian cogito - the principle articulated by Descartes that 'I think, therefore I am' - is often hailed as the precursor of modern science. At the same time, the cogito's agent, the ego, is... (more)

Opera's Second Death

by Slavoj Zizek, Mladen Dolar

This work explores the relationship between opera and psychoanalysis. Ziezek and Dolar consider, for example, death in opera and orgasm (the little death for which opera may be imagined to be a... (more)

Conversations with Zizek

by Slavoj Zizek, Glyn Daly

This title offers a series of conversations which illustrate the originality of Slavoj Zizek's thinking on psychoanalysis, philosophy, multi-culturalism, popular/cyber culture, totalitarianism,... (more)

The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity

by Slavoj Zizek

In this volume Slavoj Zizek offers a close reading of today's religious constellation from the viewpoint of Lacanian psychoanalysis. He critically confronts both predominant versions of today's... (more)

Organs Without Bodies: Deleuze and Consequences

by Slavoj Zizek

The title by the Slovenian critic Slavoj Zizek takes the work of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze as the beginning of an inquiry into the realms of radical politics, philosophy, film and... (more)

Interrogating the Real

by Slavoj Zizek

Interrogating the Real is the first volume of the collected writings of Slavoj Zizek - undoubtedly one of the world's leading contemporary cultural commentators, and one of the most inspiring,... (more)

The Metastases of Enjoyment: On Women and Causality

by Slavoj Zizek

A disturbing and radical examination of the status of women and the role of violence in contemporary culture and politics. (more)

Lacan: The Silent Partners

Edited by Slavoj Zizek

It is well known that Jacques Lacan developed his ideas in dialogue with major European thought and art, past and present. Yet what if there is another frame of reference, rarely or never mentioned... (more)

Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out

by Slavoj Zizek

The title is just the first of many startling asides, observations and insights that fill this guide to Hollywood on the Lacanian psychoanalyst's couch. Zizek introduces the ideas of Jacques Lacan... (more)

Violence

by Slavoj Zizek

The premise of Zizek's theory is that the subjective violence we see - violence with a clear identifiable agent - is only the tip of an iceberg made up of systemic violence, which is essentially the... (more)