Slavoj Zizek

My Lacanian-informed theory of ideology is one of my major contributions to political theory; my first book in English, The Sublime Object of Ideology, and the documentary The Pervert's Guide to Ideology, in which I stars, are among the well-known places in which it is discussed. I believe that ideology has been frequently misinterpreted as dualistic and, according to me, this misinterpreted dualism posits that there is a real world of material relations and objects outside of oneself, which is