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Slavoj Zizek is one of the world's foremost cultural commentators: a prolific writer and thinker, whose vividly adventurous, unorthodox and wide-ranging writings have won him a unique place as one of the most high profile thinkers of our time. Covering psychoanalysis, philosophy and popular culture and drawing on a heady mix of Marxist politics, Hegelian dialectics and Lacanian psychoanalysis, the writings collected in Interrogating the Real reflect not only the remarkable extent of Zizek's varied interests, but also reveal his controversial and dynamic style.
Preface, Slavoj Zizek
'The Thing Itself' Appears: Introducing the Work of SlavojZizek, Rex Butler andScott Stephens
Part One: Lacanian Orientations
1. The Societyfor Theoretical Psychoanalysis in Yugoslavia
2. Why Lacan is Hegelian
3. The Most Sublime of Hysterics: Hegel with Lacan
4. Connections of theFreudian Field to Philosophy and Popular Culture
5. Lacan between CulturalStudies and Cognitivism
Part Two: Philosophy Traversed by Psychoanalysis
6. The Limits of the Semiotic Approach to Psychoanalysis
7. A Hair of theDog That Bit You
8. Hegel, Lacan, Deleuze: Three Strange Bedfellows
9. The Eclipse of Meaning:On Lacan and Deconstruction
10. The Parallax View
Part Three: The Fantasy ofIdeology
11. Between Symbolic Fiction and Fantasmic Spectre: Towards aLacanian Theory of Ideology
12. Beyond Discourse Analysis
13. Re-visioning'Lacanian' Social Criticism: The Law and its Obscene Double
14. Why is WagnerWorth Saving?
15. The Real of Sexual Difference
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Slavoj Zizek is one of the world's foremost cultural commentators: a prolific writer and thinker, whose vividly adventurous, unorthodox and wide-ranging writings have won him a unique place as one of the most high profile thinkers of our time. Covering psychoanalysis, philosophy and popular culture and drawing on a heady mix of Marxist politics, Hegelian dialectics and Lacanian psychoanalysis, the writings collected in Interrogating the Real reflect not only the remarkable extent of Zizek's varied interests, but also reveal his controversial and dynamic style.