Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Zizek was born in 1949 in Slovenia. He holds a doctorate in philosophy and psychoanalysis, has worked at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana, and currently directs the International Center for Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London. His writing and research work is multifaceted and diverse. A significant part of it focuses on highlighting the radical political and philosophical significance of Lacanian psychoanalysis. His books, which have been translated into many languages, include: "Les plus sublime des hysteriques: Hegel passe" (1988), "The Sublime Object of Ideology" (1989), "Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture" (1991), "Enjoy your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out" (1991), "Tarrying with the Negative" (1993), "The Metastases of Enjoyment" (1994), "The Plague of Fantasies" (1997), "The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology" (1999), "The Fragile Absolute" (2000), "On Belief" (2001), "Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?" (Scripta, 2002).