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Slovenian philosopher (born 1949)

"Žižek" and "Zizek" redirect here. For the biographical documentary film about Slavoj Žižek, see Zizek!

Slavoj Žižek (SLAH-voy ZHEE-zhek, Slovene:[ˈsláːʋɔjˈʒíːʒək]; born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian Marxist philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual.^[4][5]

He is the international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University, professor of philosophy and psychoanalysis at the European Graduate School and senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana.^[6][7] He primarily works on continental philosophy (particularly Hegelianism, psychoanalysis and Marxism) and political theory, as well as film criticism and theology.

Žižek is the most famous associate of the Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis, a group of Slovenian acad