Picture This image is awful so dark one can t see his features Yugoslavia I have changed born in Ljubljana Yugoslavia now Slovenia to born to Ljubljana Slovenia then part of Yugoslavia The reason is that Ljubljana has always been part of Slovenia because Slovenia already existed before it became independent and indeed was recognized as a constituent republic of Yugoslavia I have also added Zizek s latest book to the list By the way for which political party if any did Zizek stand for President This would be interesting to know He seems to be a Marxist Leninist though I don t know if this is stated anywhere explicitly I m almost positive that this was the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia For a while he was considered their ideologist although of course the party is now much more centered that it used to be left wing of what is now the LDS party originated back from Union of the Socialist Youth of Slovenia but then it got merged with several slightly right of them parties and it also rules Slovenia for 12 years which also moved the party to the center Slovenian pronounciation Please can somebody who knows Slovenian put out some sort of pronounciation for i ek I m from Sweden and everyone seems to have their own why of saying it I m pronouncing it gee jack but I think I may be wrong I ve heard it pronounced by Slovenes and I am quite certain the s are Voiced postalveolar fricatives like the s in English treasure Zheezhack David you are correct We pronuance as in english word treasure So i ek is prounanced zheezhack Philosophy There s enough here to whet one s appetite for Lacan and Zizek s psychoanalytic cultural and political insights but there appears to be no mention of Zizek s indebtedness to Marx or more importantly Hegel And what about his later obsessions with Christianity and Paul This needs to place Zizek squarely or roundly within a more philosophical context Indeed This article is too liberal and postmodern by far I don t have the time now to make any formal claims of NPOV But consider notice given Major problems in defining Zizek s terms The symbolic real the signifier reduced to a meaningless formula as in quantum physics which like every science grasps at the real but only produces barely comprehensible concepts The example assumes open hostility toward science and implies that concepts that Zizek doesn t understand are impossible for everyone to comprehend The real real a horrific thing that which conveys the sense of horror in horror films This assumes that other theorists haven t explained the operation of horror films using alternate analytical methods Such as Noel Carroll s cognitive psychology approach The imaginary real an unfathomable something that permeates things as a trace of the sublime This form of the real becomes perceptible in the film The Full Monty for instance in the fact that in stripping the unemployed protagonists disrobe completely in other words through this extra gesture of voluntary degradation something else of the order of the sublime becomes visible This is a piece of sophomoric film interpretation that is not supported by any evidence If someone else interpreted the film differently would that change the meaning of the term I propose that a Zizekian try and explain these terms without reverting to undergraduate film interpretation or without displaying contempt for an analytical method that they don t understand Critique any good criticism on him I have read an article by Alberto Moreiras Children of Light on him but wish to seek some other sources perhaps dialogues with Badiou some of which are on A new user added the following critique S he first did so as an anon then started an account to add it Frankly as far as I can tell it seems to be gibberish that only barely uses some words from Zizek But maybe I m being ungenerous Does this make sense to anyone else Clearly the hyperbole words like most potent and formidable need to go but after that is there any kernel of meaningful comment here Well also the primary antagonist being someone I ve never heard of but who apparently does exist according to Google John Holbo is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore 1999 Ph D from Berkeley NEWLI