Slavoj Zizek is a Hegelian philosopher, a Lacanian psychoanalyst, and a Communist. He is International Director at the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK, Visiting Professor at the New York University, USA, and Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.Rex Butler is Professor of Art History at the School of Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. His previous publications include Jean Baudrillard: The Defence of the Real (1999).Scott Stephens is Researcher at the Centre for Theology and Politics, Brisbane, Australia.

Collected writings by a superstar of contemporary critical theory, including essays ranging from psychoanalysis and philosophy to popular culture.

Collected writings from one of the most popular and charismatic cultural theorists writing today.

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 Glossary.

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.