Zizek Taking "Enjoyment Within the Limits of Reason Alone"

Zizek is no doubt the most influential in today's international world of theory. He integrates Hegelian dialectic and Lacanian psychoanalytic theories with Marxian ideological criticism in his most talented theoretical presentation, producing strong theoretical efficacy. For him, Hegelian dialectics is not an identical one that effaces contradictions but a differential one that preserves all disruptive power of contradictions. It is the differential dialectics that accounts for Zizek's way of thinking. Lacanian theory is essential in Zizek's, for Lacanian concept of the Real and its relevant concepts (e.g. fantasy, object a) furnish the terminological and conceptual framework of Zizek's. He reshapes the concept of ideology with Lacanian concept of fantasy and the contemporary criticism of ideology, contributing greatly to the contemporary development of Marxist theory.