The most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis, indeed of cultural theory in general, to have emerged from Europe in some decades.
- Terry Eagleton,
Unafraid of confrontation and with a near limitless grasp of pop symbolism.
Times of London
Zizek unfolds in this text a theory of the workings of postmodern ideology that is often breathtaking in its scope and acuity.
Postmodern Culture
Into this arena, enters Zizek: equipped with an agile wit and the skills of a prodigious scholar, he confidently ranges among a dazzling array of cultural references-explicating Robert Schumann as deftly as he does John Carpenter-to demonstrate how the modern condition blinds us to the ideological basis of our lives.