So I tried this introduction by Slavoj Žižek. To this end I tried reading an introductory text but had no luck since technical, obscure language filled the pages right from the first chapter. Since one of my own areas of interest in Jungian psychology, I thought it wise to gain at least a basic understanding of another major theorist in the world of psychoanalysis - Jacques Lacan. You might not agree with his philosophy or politics but one thing is certain - he has the uncanny ability to explain difficult theories and concepts in vivid, comprehensible language. Slavoj Žižek - Slovenian psychoanalytic philosopher, cultural critic and all around Marxist bad boy. In an interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! he described himself as a "Marxist" and a "Communist." In an interview with the Spanish newspaper El País he jokingly described himself as an "orthodox Lacanian Stalinist". He writes on many topics including the Iraq War, fundamentalism, capitalism, tolerance, political correctness, globalization, subjectivity, human rights, Lenin, myth, cyberspace, postmodernism, multiculturalism, post-marxism, David Lynch, and Alfred Hitchcock.
Žižek is well known for his use of the works of 20th century French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan in a new reading of popular culture. Since 2005, Žižek has been a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. In 1990 he was a candidate with the party Liberal Democracy of Slovenia for Presidency of the Republic of Slovenia (an auxiliary institution, abolished in 1992). He received a Doctor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Ljubljana and studied psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII with Jacques-Alain Miller and François Regnault. He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (then part of SFR Yugoslavia). Slavoj Žižek is a Slovene sociologist, philosopher, and cultural critic.
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