La subjecivité à venir

by Slavoj Žižek

L'analyse politique contemporaine ne peut faire l'impasse sur la culture de masse, qui est aujourd'hui l'un des champs de bataille idéologiques centraux de notre époque. De Richard Wagner à Mel Gibson, en passant par Matrix et Alfred Hitchcock, Slavoj Žižek explore l'imaginaire collectif occidental à partir des mutations subjectives à l'oeuvre dans l'art moderne, par le biais d'une pensée de l'esthétique qui ne s'embarrasse pas de hiérarchisation et ne se dissocie pas de la question politique et psychanalytique. Žižek, persuadé que la notion de subjectivité doit aujourd'hui être réinventée, tente de mieux comprendre la nouvelle donne subjective et idéologique. Le cybersexe, la psychanalyse, l'événement politique, l'opéra, le cinéma viennent nous rappeler la dimension toujours hautement problématique du rapport au réel.

Genres: Nonfiction

224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Slavoj Žižek is a Slovene sociologist, philosopher, and cultural critic.

He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (then part of SFR Yugoslavia). He received a Doctor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Ljubljana and studied psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII with Jacques-Alain Miller and François Regnault. In 1990 he was a candidate with the party Liberal Democracy of Slovenia for Presidency of the Republic of Slovenia (an auxiliary institution, abolished in 1992).

Since 2005, Žižek has been a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Žižek is well known for his use of the works of 20th century French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan in a new reading of popular culture. He writes on many topics including the Iraq War, fundamentalism, capitalism, tolerance, political correctness, globalization, subjectivity, human rights, Lenin, myth, cyberspace, postmodernism, multiculturalism, post-marxism, David Lynch, and Alfred Hitchcock.

In an interview with the Spanish newspaper El País he jokingly described himself as an "orthodox Lacanian Stalinist". In an interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! he described himself as a "Marxist" and a "Communist."