Slavoj Žižek

Slavoj Žižek is affiliated with the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. Their main fields of study include Social Sciences and Psychology, with a focus on subfields such as Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Philosophy, Literature and Literary Theory, and Political Science and International Relations.

Their research spans several interrelated topics, notably:

• Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
• Political Economy and Marxism
• Marxism and Critical Theory
• Critical Theory and Philosophy
• Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
• Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
• Psychology and Mental Health

Žižek has authored multiple recent papers, including:

• Is Barbarism with a Human Face Our Fate? (2020) published in Critical Inquiry
• The Appointment in Samarra: A New Use for Some Old Jokes (2020) published in Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
• Subjective destitution in art and politics: From being-towards-death to undeadness (2023) published in Enrahonar An international journal of theoretical and practical reason
• Returning to the Past to Rethink Socio-Political Antagonisms: Mapping Today's Situation in Regards to Popular Insurrections (2022) published in CLCWeb Comparative Literature and Culture
• Redefinir las causas comunes en las luchas sociales. Un análisis a las antinomias del valor, el trabajo y la subsunción (2023) published in Las Torres de Lucca International Journal of Political Philosophy

Their frequent co-authors include:

• Nicol A. Barria-Asenjo
• Gonzalo Salas
• Jesús Ayala-Colqui
• Ruben Balotol
• Brian Willems

Žižek is regularly published in venues such as:

• Critical Inquiry
• Revista de Humanidades de Valparaíso
• Bajo Palabra
• Revista Guillermo de Ockham
• Savoirs et clinique

They have several book publications with different publishers, including Bloomsbury Publishing plc, where titles like Freedom (2023) and Christian Atheism (2024) have been released. Other books include Surplus-Enjoyment (2022) published by Bloomsbury Academic eBooks, Sex und das verfehlte Absolute (2020) by Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft eBooks, Hegel hoy (2020) by Herder eBooks, and Lacans politische Klinik des Seins (2020) by Klostermann eBooks.