Editing Slavoj Žižek (section)

===Early life===
Žižek was born in [[Ljubljana]], [[Socialist Republic of Slovenia|PR Slovenia]], [[Yugoslavia]], into a middle-class family.<ref name="mladina.si">{{cite web |url=http://www.mladina.si/tednik/200442/clanek/nar-kdo_je_kdaj--ursa_matos/ |trans-title=Who's When: Slavoj Žižek. The Last of the Marxists who made Pop from Philosophy and Philosophy from Pop |title=Kdo je kdaj: Slavoj Žižek. Tisti poslednji marksist, ki je iz filozofije naredil pop in iz popa filozofijo |publisher=Mladina |date=24 October 2004 |access-date=13 August 2010 |language=sl |archive-date=10 December 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210034440/http://www.mladina.si/tednik/200442/clanek/nar-kdo_je_kdaj--ursa_matos/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> His father Jože Žižek was an economist and civil servant from the region of [[Prekmurje]] in eastern Slovenia. His mother Vesna, a native of the [[Gorizia Hills]] in the [[Slovenian Littoral]], was an accountant in a state enterprise. His parents were [[Atheism|atheists]].<ref>''Slovenski biografski leksikon'' (Ljubljana: [[Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts|SAZU]], 1991), XV. edition</ref> He spent most of his childhood in the coastal town of [[Portorož]], where he was exposed to Western film, theory and popular culture.<ref name="iep.utm.edu"/><ref name=slovenskapomlad>{{cite web |url=http://www.slovenskapomlad.si/2?id=20 |title=Slovenska pomlad: Slavoj Žižek (Webpage run by the National Museum of Modern History in Ljubljana) |publisher=Slovenskapomlad.si |date=29 September 1988 |access-date=4 June 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003180230/http://www.slovenskapomlad.si/2?id=20 |archive-date=3 October 2011}}</ref> When Žižek was a teenager his family moved back to Ljubljana where he attended [[Bežigrad High School]].<ref name=slovenskapomlad/> Originally wanting to become a filmmaker himself, he abandoned these ambitions and chose to pursue philosophy instead.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Down with ideology|website = [[YouTube]]| date=18 January 2019 |url=https://youtube.com/watch?v=Zm5tpQp6sT4| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211031/Zm5tpQp6sT4| url-status=live | archive-date=2021-10-31}}{{cbignore}}</ref>