Editing Slavoj Žižek (section)

===Education===
In 1967, during an era of [[liberalization]] in [[Titoism|Titoist]] Yugoslavia, Žižek enrolled at the [[University of Ljubljana]] and studied philosophy and sociology.<ref name="lacan.com">Tony Meyers [http://www.lacan.com/zizekchro1.htm Slavoj Zizek - His Life] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513103155/http://www.lacan.com/zizekchro1.htm |date=13 May 2021 }} lacan.com, from: Slavoj Zizek, London: Routledge, 2003.</ref>

Žižek had already begun reading French [[Structuralism|structuralists]] prior to entering university, and in 1967 he published the first translation of a text by [[Jacques Derrida]] into Slovenian.<ref name="mladina.si 42">{{cite web |url= http://www.mladina.si/tednik/200442/clanek/nar-kdo_je_kdaj--ursa_matos/ |title= Tednik, številka 42, Slavoj Žižek |publisher= Mladina.Si |date= 24 October 2004 |access-date= 13 August 2010 |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> Žižek frequented the circles of dissident intellectuals, including the [[Martin Heidegger|Heideggerian]] philosophers [[Tine Hribar]] and [[Ivo Urbančič]],<ref name="mladina.si 42"/> and published articles in alternative magazines, such as ''[[Praxis School|Praxis]]'', ''Tribuna'' and ''Problemi'', which he also edited.<ref name=slovenskapomlad/> In 1971 he accepted a job as an assistant researcher with the promise of [[tenure]], but was dismissed after his Master's thesis was denounced by the authorities as being "non-Marxist".<ref name="p37">Žižek's response to the article "Če sem v kaj resnično zaljubljena, sem v življenje Sobotna priloga Dela, p. 37 (19.1. 2008)</ref> He graduated from the University of Ljubljana in 1981 with a [[Doctor of Arts]] in Philosophy for his dissertation entitled ''The Theoretical and Practical Relevance of French Structuralism''.<ref name="lacan.com"/> He spent the next few years in what was described as "professional wilderness", also fulfilling his legal duty of undertaking a year-long [[national service]] in the [[Yugoslav People's Army]] in [[Karlovac]].<ref name="lacan.com"/>