4 Quotes & Sayings By Slavoj Zizek

Slavoj Žižek, born in Šibenik, Croatia, is a cultural theorist and psychoanalyst. His best-known work is Pervertors of Justice, written with Guillaume Apollinaire. He is the author of numerous books including The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989), Three follies of contemporary psychoanalysis (1993), Violence (1998), First as Tragedy, Then as Farce (2006), Living in the End Times (2008), The Year of Dreaming Dangerously (2009) and Enjoy Your Symptom! Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out (2009). He is also the editor of The Year of Dreaming Dangerously Read more

1
I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure. Slavoj Zizek
2
What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth. Slavoj Zizek
3
You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed. Slavoj Zizek