Psychoanalysis, the suspect science
As an undergraduate at the University of Ljubljana, Žižek did not support Communist orthodoxy and came into conflict with the authorities. Not sticking to approved course lists, he immersed himself in the works of Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and other philosophers, mostly French, whose writings had found little favour in socialist circles.
From our socialist point of view, Lacan’s work is particularly suspect, because psychoanalysis is preoccupied with the self and the individual mind.
Žižek’s eventual philosophical project became about reconciling psychoanalysis with collectivist politics.
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