Quotes About Žižek

The ultimate lesson of The Interpretation of Dreams: reality is for those who cannot sustain the dream.

The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on.

If he had stayed in Slovenia, and Slovenia had stayed Communist, Žižek would not have been the nuisance he has since become. Indeed, if there were no greater reason to regret the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, the release of Žižek on to the world of Western scholarship would perhaps already be a sufficient one.

Žižek seems to have got Hitchcock out of his system, if not out of his unconscious—one never does that.