Slavoj Zizek
Slavoj Zizek is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalyst, and political activist. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and the author of numerous books on dialectical materialism, critique of ideology and art.
Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed
Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to truly enjoy what we have. Slavoj Žižek's guide to surplus... (more)
Perversion and the Social Relation
The masochist, the voyeur, the sadist, the sodomite, the fetishist, the pedophile, and the necrophiliac all expose hidden but essential elements of the social relation. Arguing that the concept of... (more)
Everything You Have Always Wanted to Know About Lacan... But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock: Second Edition
A compilation of papers applying the insights of Lacan to Hitchcock's movies and vice versa. Hitchcock gets onto the analyst's couch in this extraordinary volume of case studies. The contributors... (more)
Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan Through Popular Culture
A virtuoso reading of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory through the works of popular culture, from horror fiction and detective thrillers to popular romances and Hitchcock films.
The Abyss of Freedom
This book contains the first English version of the second draft (1813) of Schelling's 'Die Weltalter' ('Ages of the World'). Zizek provides a commentary on this work, focusing on the notion that... (more)
Cogito and the Unconscious
The Cartesian cogito - the principle articulated by Descartes that 'I think, therefore I am' - is often hailed as the precursor of modern science. At the same time, the cogito's agent, the ego, is... (more)
Opera's Second Death
This work explores the relationship between opera and psychoanalysis. Ziezek and Dolar consider, for example, death in opera and orgasm (the little death for which opera may be imagined to be a... (more)
Conversations with Zizek
This title offers a series of conversations which illustrate the originality of Slavoj Zizek's thinking on psychoanalysis, philosophy, multi-culturalism, popular/cyber culture, totalitarianism,... (more)
The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity
In this volume Slavoj Zizek offers a close reading of today's religious constellation from the viewpoint of Lacanian psychoanalysis. He critically confronts both predominant versions of today's... (more)
Organs Without Bodies: Deleuze and Consequences
The title by the Slovenian critic Slavoj Zizek takes the work of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze as the beginning of an inquiry into the realms of radical politics, philosophy, film and... (more)
Interrogating the Real
Interrogating the Real is the first volume of the collected writings of Slavoj Zizek - undoubtedly one of the world's leading contemporary cultural commentators, and one of the most inspiring,... (more)
The Metastases of Enjoyment: On Women and Causality
A disturbing and radical examination of the status of women and the role of violence in contemporary culture and politics. (more)
Lacan: The Silent Partners
It is well known that Jacques Lacan developed his ideas in dialogue with major European thought and art, past and present. Yet what if there is another frame of reference, rarely or never mentioned... (more)
How to Read Lacan
"The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire." - Jacques Lacan. Is psychoanalysis dead or are we to read frequent attacks on its theoretical... (more)
Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out
The title is just the first of many startling asides, observations and insights that fill this guide to Hollywood on the Lacanian psychoanalyst's couch. Zizek introduces the ideas of Jacques Lacan... (more)
Contingency, Hegemony and Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left
The Hegelian legacy, Left strategy, and post-structuralism versus Lacanian psychoanalysis.
What is the contemporary legacy of Gramsci's notion of Hegemony? How can universality be reformulated... (more)
The Zizek Dictionary
Slavoj Zizek is the most popular and discussed philosopher in the world today. His prolific writings - across philosophy, psychoanalysis, political and social theory, film, music and religion - ... (more)
The Most Sublime Hysteric: Hegel with Lacan
What do we know about Hegel? What do we know about Marx? What do we know about democracy and totalitarianism? Communism and psychoanalysis? What do we know that isn't a platitude that we've heard a... (more)
Demanding the Impossible
Where are we today and what is to be done? Slavoj ?i?ek ponders these questions in this unique and timely book. Based on live interviews, the book captures ?i?ek at his irrepressible best,... (more)