Introducing Slavoj Zizek

We must recognize that we cannot gain full power over our biosphere even though it is in our power to de-rail it and disturb its balance.”

Ecology is the new opium of the masses, replacing religion.”

Meaning continually travels along the signifying chain.

preserving the spontaneity of his thoughts

Living in the End Times

DECLARED AT THE END OF THE 19TH CENTURY THAT GOD IS DEAD!

This put paid to the idea of a higher superior power, symbolized by the figure of God, controlling mankind’s individual and social behaviour through an entire set of moral prohibitions and taboos, the basis for which are the Ten Commandments.

Following the idea of the death of God and the apparent loosening of moral injunctions within Western society, the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–81) is, according to the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–80), supposed to have declared:

“All the oppositions noted by Josef K.

In the 1970s, Žižek became part of a significant group of Slovenian scholars working on the theories of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901–81), and together they founded the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis in Ljubljana. This society, among whose best-known members are Mladen Dolar (b. 1951) and Žižek’s second wife Renata Salecl (b. 1962), established editorial control over a journal called Problem!.