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February 10, 2007 at 10:41 am | In Entertainment, Gender | 21 Comments
Tags: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Wedding

And there goes another post triggered by my recent quest to explore the public persona of Slavoj Žižek. I’ll stay comfortably on the surface of things, like a tabloid, to leave the rest to your own imagination. I can’t come up with a coherent story about Žižek’s wives, I couldn’t even find out whether he was married two or three times. What difference would it make anyway? According to Wikipedia, he married the second time in 2004, according to Rebecca Mead in The New Yorker, he was already divorced twice in 2003.

The top right image shows his first or second wife Renata Salecl, Professor at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Law Institute of Criminology, Centennial Professor at the department of law at the London School of Economics and a visiting scholar to various institutions (Duke University, Berliner Wissenschaftskolleg, New School for Social Research, to name a few). She has written and co-edited a number of publications, alone and with Žižek, and she is very attractive.

In 2004, Žižek, the psycoanalytic philosopher, married a woman by the name of Analia Hounie (sorry, couldn’t keep the emphasis to myself), who is also very attractive, yet in a different way (see pictures). She is a (then) 26-year old model from Argentina, and according to some “the daughter of a major Lacanian thinker and a very serious scholar herself” [I-Cite].

Ruflan via K-Punk writes about her as “Zizek’s new adquisition: the intellectual model”:

Someone was wondering if she’s a genius or something like that. Well, she is. And she is not.
She is: she’s a literature student and she married Zizek. (eeek) anyway, when the old man dies he’ll leave her a really important book collection.
She is not: i’m actually a literature student and the thing is i got to be sitting with her in the same class room several times. Legally blonde.

Zizek Wedding See how a story is beginning to form in your head? No further comment from my side… I do, however, not want to withhold the wedding photograph from you, also courtesy I-Cite, with which she raised the question:

“Is tabloid coverage good for materialist, psychoanalytic, philosophy?”

Read the comments on I-Cite’s blog, they are entertaining.

(EDIT: Word on the street has it Žižek has already divorced Houni and hooked up with a blonde Harvard student – 2009-05-16)

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lustig. was findest du denn an seinem privatleben so packend?

Comment by jomalm — February 10, 2007 #

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nicht sein privatleben – die public persona, die sich zusammensetzt aus schnipseln über den theoretiker und den ehemann. finde es spannend, was sich da für teile zusammensetzen – der cutting edge philosoph und psychoanaltische denker und zugleich der alte sack, der ein model pimpert… wenn man sich die story so zusammen setzen will, für den effekt…

Comment by anaj — February 10, 2007 #

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How about this for public persona: a few years back Zizek wrote the intro and picture captions for that year’s Abercrombie and Fitch catalogue.

Comment by cerebraljetsam — February 10, 2007 #

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Yes, I heard of that (or simply read it in Wikipedia, I think?) – I quite like that, although I doubt that this was a regular copy writing job. One should find out whether he was featured as guest writer in the catalogue or not. If he was, I wouldn’t like the idea as much as I would if he wasn’t.

Comment by anaj — February 10, 2007 #

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The scary thing was that he seemed to do it on voluntary basis. His justification, actually even more shocking (since true), was that there was no discernable difference between writing this crap for A&F and writing for US academia and for lecture tours. He said he saw no difference between the money he made from both. In times of an increasing corporatization of universities that is actually a very true (albeit pragmatic) statement.

Comment by cerebraljetsam — February 10, 2007 #

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I think that he’s probably right with his comment, at least for the aspect that both profession might demand from you to sell out, the good thing about copy writing being that at least it is honest… and I just wanted to add “but it’s problematic if Abercrombie & Fitch use him as a marketing argumemnt”… howeber, if you look at the annoying example of the European Graduate School, then we see exactly this thing happening… apparently the EGS students witnessed Zizek and his Argentinian wive on a skiing tour (no idea how that was possible in the summer, but that’s what someone write on i-Cite’s blog)

Comment by anaj — February 11, 2007 #

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Yeah, Zizek! Analia is very pretty and smart(Zizek wouldn’t marry some stupid girl with small-town mentality)

Comment by Vasilije — December 29, 2008 #

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Word on the street is the marriage with la chica is over. Maybe we had a sign in the wedding pic? Both look, errr, somewhat haggard and less than overjoyed.

Comment by Fauster — May 15, 2009 #

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ah, which street is that? interesting:)

Comment by digiom — May 15, 2009 #

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=) The streets of Chicago. Several of my friends have seen the Zizek roaming around with an enigmatic blonde, also young and strikingly beautiful. How does the old man do it? Rumor has it that he’s no longer married to the Argentinian and the blond is a graduate student he met at Harvard.

Comment by Fauster — May 15, 2009 #

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How does he do it – being an international superstar for intellectuals seems to suffice!

Comment by digiom — May 16, 2009 #

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Zizek is right here achieving what according to him is the reason why man are interested in beautyfull women – others talk about it. According to Zizek a man alone with Cindy Crawford would not be very attracted, because there is no one there to talk about. Funny

Comment by Nicky — May 16, 2009 #

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Isn’t that a reinstallation of the Oedipal triangle, btw?

Comment by digiom — May 16, 2009 #

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I’ve seen them too! She’s at U of C. I know a bunch of people who know her. Supposed to be very smart, and yes very beautiful.

Comment by Adamk — May 17, 2009 #

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Another young, female genius lost…

Comment by digiom — May 18, 2009 #

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I sometimes think that someone should write a post about the after-life of posts: how, sometimes, years down the road, an old thread will resume life. In this way Zizek’s marriage is made permanent, however after the fact.

Comment by skunkcabbage — June 15, 2009 #

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Yes, it is interesting – if only I had the time…

Comment by digiom — June 15, 2009 #

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Yes my Guy Etay is friends with the dame [edited]

It is not to be disputed that she is mighty attractive. I do not know the details of the relationship however. I have learned that she is with another guy at Chicago (university) so it seems the relationship is not exclusive.

Comment by Michael — July 2, 2009 #

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Yeah I admit to this. I have a friend of friend who is friends with [edited]. (I heard about this post through Facebook.)
She is gorgeous, and reported to be frightening, in terms of brilliance, though no one has heard of her as of late.
[edited]?
is she anywhere to be found in Chicago?

Comment by Steve — July 2, 2009 #

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hi,

sorry to post this here, but i couldn’t find an email to reach you by on this site. i’m actually the ### they’re talking about. i’m not any longer in a relationship with slavoj and haven’t been for some time.

would you mind removing these last posts, the ones with my name and everything? it’s just embarrassing and could cause problems in my life…

i’d so much appreciate it!

thanks,
###

Comment by ### — July 6, 2009 #

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@Steve currently she is not in Chicago. she’s on vacation… Mackinac Island. Just kiddin’, this is so funny. In a way ….

http://aspd.net/showthread.php?postid=2323573#post2323573

PS: Don’t believe the hype – never ever

Comment by Samuel Clay Beckett — July 7, 2009 #

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