Editing Slavoj Žižek (section)

===Stylistic confusion===
Žižek has been criticized for his chaotic and non-systematic style: Harpham calls Žižek's style "a stream of nonconsecutive units arranged in arbitrary sequences that solicit a sporadic and discontinuous attention".<ref>Harpham [http://www.uchicago.edu/research/jnl-crit-inq/issues/v29/v29n3.harpham1.html "Doing the Impossible: Slavoj Žižek and the End of Knowledge"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330100325/http://www.uchicago.edu/research/jnl-crit-inq/issues/v29/v29n3.harpham1.html |date=30 March 2012 }}</ref> O'Neill concurs: "a dizzying array of wildly entertaining and often quite maddening rhetorical strategies are deployed in order to beguile, browbeat, dumbfound, dazzle, confuse, mislead, overwhelm, and generally subdue the reader into acceptance."<ref>{{citation |last=O'Neill |url=http://www.film-philosophy.com/vol5-2001/n17oneill |title=The Last Analysis of Slavoj Žižek |access-date=14 May 2008 |archive-date=4 July 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704081134/http://www.film-philosophy.com/vol5-2001/n17oneill |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Noam Chomsky]] deems Žižek guilty of "using fancy terms like polysyllables and pretending you have a theory when you have no theory whatsoever", adding that his views are often too obscure to be communicated usefully to common people.<ref>{{cite web |last=Springer |first=Mike |date=28 June 2013 |url=http://www.openculture.com/2013/06/noam_chomsky_slams_zizek_and_lacan_empty_posturing.html |title=Noam Chomsky Slams Žižek and Lacan: Empty 'Posturing' |website=OpenCulture.com |access-date=20 June 2018 |archive-date=19 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220319200117/http://www.openculture.com/2013/06/noam_chomsky_slams_zizek_and_lacan_empty_posturing.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Conservative thinker [[Roger Scruton]] claims that: 
{{blockquote|To summarize Žižek's position is not easy: he slips between philosophical and psychoanalytical ways of arguing, and is spell-bound by [[Lacan]]'s gnomic utterances. He is a lover of paradox, and believes strongly in what [[Hegel]] called 'the labour of the negative' though taking the idea, as always, one stage further towards the brick wall of paradox.<ref>{{cite book |last=Scruton |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Scruton |date=2015 |title=Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left |publisher=Bloomsbury |page=256 |isbn=978-1408187333}}</ref>}}