"Discussing Hegel and Lacan is like breathing for Slavoj." -- Judith Butler "The most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged from Europe in some decades" -- Terry Eagleton "The Giant of Ljubljana provides the best intellectual high since Anti-Oedipus." -- Village Voice

Slavoj Zizek is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Studies in Ljubljana. His books include Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle; The Sublime Object of Ideology; The Plague of Fantasies; The Ticklish Subject; and Welcome to the Desert of the Real, all from Verso.