is a Marxist sociologist, philosopher, and cultural critic. He received a Ph.D in Philosophy from the University of Ljubljana and studied psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII with Jacques-Alain Miller and François Regnault. Since 2005, Žižek has been a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Žižek is well known for his use of the works of twentieth-century French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan in a new reading of popular culture. He writes on subjects as varied as Iraq War, fundamentalism, capitalism, tolerance, political correctness, globalization, subjectivity, human rights, Lenin, myth, cyberspace, postmodernism, multiculturalism, post-Marxism, David Lynch, and Alfred Hitchcock. He is professor at the European Graduate School and International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London. [040609]