Slavoj Zizek, a leading intellectual in the new social movements that are sweeping Eastern Europe, provides a virtuoso reading of Jacques Lacan. Zizek inverts current pedagogical strategies to explain the difficult philosophical underpinnings of the French theoretician and practician who revolutionized our view of psychoanalysis. He approaches Lacan through the motifs and works of contemporary popular culture, from Hitchcock's Vertigo to Stephen King's Pet Sematary, from McCullough's An Indecent Obsession to Romero's Return of the Living Dead - a strategy of "looking awry" that recalls the exhilarating and vital experience of Lacan.Zizek discovers fundamental Lacanian categories the triad Imaginary/Symbolic/Real, the object small a, the opposition of drive and desire, the split subject - at work in horror fiction, in detective thrillers, in romances, in the mass media's perception of ecological crisis, and, above all, in Alfred Hitchcock's films. The playfulness of Zizek's text, however, is entirely different from that associated with the deconstructive approach made famous by Derrida. By clarifying what Lacan is saying as well as what he is not saying, Zizek is uniquely able to distinguish Lacan from the poststructuralists who so often claim him.Slavoj Zizek is a Researcher in the Institute of Sociology at the University of Ljubljana, Yugoslavia. His work has been published in France and in Yugoslavia where, running as a proreform candidate, he narrowly missed being elected to the presidency of the republic of Slovenia.

【作者简介】齐泽克（1949～），斯洛文尼亚共和国卢布尔雅那大学社会学研究所资深教授，欧美众多大学及研究机构客座教授，欧陆哲学家和批判理论家。深受黑格尔主义、马克思主义和拉康精神分析理论影响，擅长以通俗文化产品解读拉康的精神分析理论，并以拉康精神分析理论、黑格尔哲学和马克思主义政治经济学解析最新的社会文化现象。自1989年推出《意识形态的崇高客体》以来，出版著作近50种。

【译者简介】季广茂（1963～），北京师范大学文学院教授，北京师范大学文艺学研究中心研究员，博士生导师。出版过《隐喻视野中的诗性传统》等论著，翻译过齐泽克的成名作《意识形态的崇高客体》以及齐泽克专门为之编辑的《实在界的鬼脸》，是齐泽克在中国最早的翻译者。