[[Slavoj Žižek]] (March 21, 1949) is a [[Slovenia|Slovenian]] [[philosophy|philosopher]], [[Jacques Lacan|Lacanian]] [[psychoanalysis|psychoanalyst]] and [[cultural critic]].
Žižek is well-known for his employing [[Lacanian psychoanalysis|Lacanian psychoanalytic theory]] in his readings of [[popular culture]] (from the [[films]] of [[Alfred Hitchcock]] and [[David Lynch]], to the [[literature]] of [[Kafka]] or [[Shakespeare]]).
In addition, he writes on a great range of topics, such as [[fundamentalism]], [[tolerance]], [[multiculturalism]], [[political correctness]], [[globalization]], [[human rights]], [[political subjectivity]], [[cyberspace]], [[post-modernism]], [[Leninism]], etc.
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