Slavoj Zizek — "The ultimate lesson of The Interpretation of Dreams: reality is for those who ca…"
The ultimate lesson of The Interpretation of Dreams: reality is for those who cannot sustain the dream.
The ultimate lesson of The Interpretation of Dreams: reality is for those who cannot sustain the dream.
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"Today, we are all living in a post-political era where political differences are replaced by cultural differences."
"I am a Lacanian. I believe in the big Other, even if it doesn't exist."
"The act of thinking is always a violent act."
"I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of him."
"Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana."
Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist whose Lacanian readings of ideology, film, and pop culture (The Sublime Object of Ideology, 1989) made him the most-cited continental philosopher of the 21st century. Closely associated with Alain Badiou (French Marxist philosophical contemporary) and Judith Butler (post-structuralist peer in gender theory). For an intellectual contrast, see Jordan Peterson, Canadian psychologist and 12 Rules for Life author — The 2019 Žižek-Peterson Toronto debate — billed 'Happiness: Capitalism vs Marxism' — sold out a 3,000-seat hall. The canonical contemporary 'continental Marxist vs Anglo-conservative-psychologist' clash, with diametrically opposed views on the political function of meaning-making.
The standard scholarly entry points to Slavoj Zizek's work: Tony Myers (Edinburgh, cultural theory) — Slavoj Žižek (2003); Glyn Daly (Northampton, political theory) — Conversations with Žižek (2004, with Žižek). These are the works graduate seminars cite when teaching Slavoj Zizek.
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