Cast & creator
Slavoj Žižek
Best known for Newsnight, Q&A, Great Minds
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.
Also known as: Slavoj Zizek
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Filmography (48)
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Newsnight
Self
1980
Q&A
Self - Panellist
2008
Great Minds
Self
2021
Bliss
Slavoj Žižek
2021Parola (su una data)
2003
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
Self - Host / Philosopher
2006The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
Writer
2006
Die Macht des Rings
Self - philosopher & cultural critic
2026
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
Self - Host / Philosopher
2012The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
Writer
2012
Houston, We Have a Problem!
Self
2016
The Pervert's Guide to Utopias
2026
Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
Self
2018Deep Thought
self
2023
Hyperstition
Self
2015
Alice, Through the Looking
Self
2021
Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution
Self - Author - 'In Defence of Lost Causes'
2009
Risk
Self
2017
The Possibility of Hope
Self
2007
Examined Life
Self
2008
Antigone, How Dare We!
Himself
2020Antigone, How Dare We!
Theatre Play
2020
Žižek!
Self
2005
Balkan Spirit
Self - Philosopher
2013
The Swap
Self (voice)
2016
The Title Was Shot
Self (archive footage) (voice)
2009
The New Man
Self
2016
Laibach – A Film from Slovenia
Himself
1993
Jordan Peterson & Slavoj Žižek - Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
Self
2019
Marx Reloaded
Self
2011
Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
Self
2019Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism
Writer
2019
Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual
Self
2004Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual
Writer
2004
Unexpurgated: Slavoj Zizek
himself
2024
Professor Slavoj Žižek on the Problem with Online Dating
Screenplay
2024There Once Was a Land of Hard-working People
Himself (archive footage)
2013
Catastroika
Self
2012
Alien, Marx & Co. - Zizek Portrait
Self
2009
Slavoj Žižek Birthday Special: Politics, Philosophy, and Hardcore Pornography
Himself
2019
Predictions of Fire
Self
1996
Thou Shalt Love thy Symptom as Thyself
Self
1996
Bravo: Laibach in Film
Himself
1993Turn On
Original Concept
2018Post-Socialism+Retro Avantgarde+Irwin
Himself
1997Hauser and Žižek: Theoreticians of Postmarxist Philosophy
2008
The Old and the New
Himself
1997
An Apology for Modernity
Himself
2021