Editing Slavoj Žižek (section)

==Personal life==
Žižek has been married four times and has two adult sons, Tim and Kostja. His second wife was Slovene philosopher and socio-legal theorist [[Renata Salecl]], fellow member of the [[Ljubljana school of psychoanalysis]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Myers |first1=Tony |title=Slavoj Žižek |date=2003 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=1134504314 |page=8}}</ref> His third wife was Argentinian model and Lacanian scholar Analia Hounie, whom he married in 2005.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tajna poroka Slavoja Žižka s 30 let mlajšo novinarko [ |url=https://www.rtvslo.si/zabava-in-slog/popkultura/druzabno/tajna-poroka-slavoja-zizka-s-30-let-mlajso-novinarko/312112 |website=RTVSLO |access-date=14 October 2022 |archive-date=14 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221014143844/https://www.rtvslo.si/zabava-in-slog/popkultura/druzabno/tajna-poroka-slavoja-zizka-s-30-let-mlajso-novinarko/312112 |url-status=live }}; {{cite web |last1=Jeffries |first1=Stuart |title=A life in writing: Slavoj Žižek |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2011/jul/15/slavoj-zizek-interview-life-writing |website=Guardian |date=15 July 2011 |access-date=14 October 2022 |archive-date=14 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221014143841/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2011/jul/15/slavoj-zizek-interview-life-writing |url-status=live }}</ref> Currently, he is married to Slovene journalist, author and philosopher, [[Jela Krečič]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Jela Krečič |url=https://www.peterowen.com/shop/jela-krecic/ |website=Peter Owen |access-date=14 October 2022 |archive-date=14 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221014143844/https://www.peterowen.com/shop/jela-krecic/ |url-status=usurped }}</ref>

In early 2018, Žižek experienced [[Bell's palsy]] on the right side of his face. He went on to give several lectures and interviews with this condition; on March 9 of that year, during a lecture on political revolutions in London, he commented on the treatment he had been receiving, and used his paralysis as a metaphor for political idleness.<ref>{{Citation |title=Slavoj Žižek - Like a Thief in the Night: A Question of Manners (Mar. 2018) | date=13 March 2018 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MWO-hZfZDQ&t=176s |access-date=2023-04-04 |language=en |archive-date=4 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404161046/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MWO-hZfZDQ&t=176s |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=Chef Slavoj (Žižek) cooks some capitalism with a hint of failure of the left | date=11 March 2018 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzDu5P9M6F4 |access-date=2023-04-04 |language=en |archive-date=4 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404210952/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzDu5P9M6F4 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Aside from his native [[Slovene language|Slovene]], Žižek is a fluent speaker of [[Serbo-Croatian]], French, German and English.<ref>Ippolit Belinski (30 June 2017). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OYSMWJafAI "Slavoj Žižek - A plea for bureaucratic socialism (June 2017)."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170703073037/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OYSMWJafAI&gl=US&hl=en |date=3 July 2017 }} ''Youtube.com''. Retrieved 20 June 2018.</ref>

===Taste===
In the [[The Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2012|2012 ''Sight & Sound'' critics' poll]], Žižek listed his 10 favourite films: ''[[3:10 to Yuma (1957 film)|3:10 to Yuma]]'', ''[[Dune (1984 film)|Dune]]'', ''[[The Fountainhead (film)|The Fountainhead]]'', ''[[Hero (2002 film)|Hero]]'', ''[[Hitman (2007 film)|Hitman]]'', ''[[Nightmare Alley (1947 film)|Nightmare Alley]]'', ''[[On Dangerous Ground]]'', ''[[Opfergang]]'', ''[[The Sound of Music (film)|The Sound of Music]]'', and ''[[We the Living (film)|We the Living]]''. On this list, he clarified: "I opted for pure madness: the list contains only 'guilty pleasures'".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/sightandsoundpoll2012/voter/94|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160212204753/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/sightandsoundpoll2012/voter/94|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 February 2016|title=Slavoj Zizek |website=www2.bfi.org.uk}}</ref> In his tour of [[The Criterion Collection]] closet, he chose ''[[Trouble in Paradise (1932 film)|Trouble in Paradise]]'', ''[[Sweet Smell of Success]]'', ''[[Picnic at Hanging Rock (film)|Picnic at Hanging Rock]]'', ''[[Murmur of the Heart]]'', ''[[The Joke (film)|The Joke]]'', ''[[The Ice Storm (film)|The Ice Storm]]'', ''[[Great Expectations (1946 film)|Great Expectations]]'', [[Roberto Rossellini]]'s History Films, ''[[City Lights]]'', a box set of [[Carl Theodor Dreyer]]'s films, ''[[Y tu mamá también]]'' and ''[[Antichrist (film)|Antichrist]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Žižek |first1=Slavoj |title=DVD Picks |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqpxT_iJ8Mc&t=2s |website=YouTube |date=26 September 2014 |access-date=17 May 2022 |archive-date=17 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220517203848/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqpxT_iJ8Mc&t=2s |url-status=live }}</ref>

In an article called "My Favourite Classics", Žižek states that [[Arnold Schoenberg]]'s ''[[Gurre-Lieder]]'' is the piece of music he would take to a desert island. He goes on to list other favourites, including [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]]'s ''[[Fidelio]]'', [[Franz Schubert|Schubert]]'s ''[[Winterreise]]'', [[Modest Mussorgsky|Mussorgsky]]'s ''[[Khovanshchina]]'' and [[Gaetano Donizetti|Donizetti]]'s ''[[L'elisir d'amore]]''. He expresses a particular love for [[Richard Wagner|Wagner]], particularly ''[[Das Rheingold]]'' and ''[[Parsifal]]''. He ranks Schoenberg over [[Igor Stravinsky|Stravinsky]], and insists on [[Hanns Eisler|Eisler]]'s importance among Schoenberg's followers.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Žižek |first1=Slavoj |title=My Favourite Classics |journal=International Journal of Žižek Studies |date=2017 |volume=11 |issue=3 |url=http://zizekstudies.org/index.php/IJZS/article/view/1034/1051 |access-date=17 May 2022 |archive-date=24 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231024024540/http://zizekstudies.org/index.php/IJZS/article/view/1034/1051 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Žižek often lists [[Franz Kafka]], [[Samuel Beckett]] and [[Andrei Platonov]] as his "three absolute masters of 20th-century literature".<ref name="webchat">{{cite web |last1=Žižek |first1=Slavoj |title=Slavoj Žižek webchat – as it happened |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/live/2014/oct/06/slavoj-zizek-webchat-absolute-recoil |website=Guardian |date=8 October 2014 |access-date=17 May 2022 |archive-date=17 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220517203119/https://www.theguardian.com/books/live/2014/oct/06/slavoj-zizek-webchat-absolute-recoil |url-status=live }}</ref> He ranks/prefers [[Varlam Shalamov]] over [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]], [[Marina Tsvetaeva]] and [[Osip Mandelstam]] over [[Anna Akhmatova]],<ref>{{cite web |last1=Žižek |first1=Slavoj and Stephen Kotkin |title=Stalin: Paradoxes of Power |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm7mb9eHg24&t=2760s |website=YouTube |date=28 November 2016 |access-date=17 May 2022 |archive-date=17 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220517203119/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm7mb9eHg24&t=2760s |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Daphne du Maurier]] over [[Virginia Woolf]], and [[Samuel Beckett]] over [[James Joyce]].<ref name="webchat"/> His theories have been applied to studying a variety of literature, including ''[[Finnegans Wake]]''.<ref>Frazer, Michael. "Closer to Consciousness: Waking as the Žižekian Event in" Finnegans Wake"." ''James Joyce Quarterly'' (2015): 95-110.</ref>