His breakthrough work was 's The Sublime Object of Ideology , his first book in English, which was decisive in the introduction of the Ljubljana School's thought to English-speaking audiences.
He has written over 50 books in multiple languages and speaks Slovene , Serbo-Croatian , [ 8 ] English , German , [ 9 ] and French. His mother Vesna, a native of the Gorizia Hills in the Slovenian Littoral , was an accountant in a state enterprise. His parents were atheists. He also cooperates with the Polish leftist magazine Krytyka Polityczna , regional southeast European left-wing journal Novi Plamen , and serves on the editorial board of the psychoanalytical journal Problemi.
Gunkel and Paul A. Taylor to engage with his work. He was a member of the League of Communists of Slovenia until October , when he quit in protest against the JBTZ trial together with 32 other Slovenian intellectuals. The Liebe Dein Symptom wie Dich selbst! He was also featured in the Marx Reloaded , directed by Jason Barker. His second wife was Slovene philosopher and socio-legal theorist Renata Salecl , fellow member of the Ljubljana school of psychoanalysis.
He went on to give several lectures and interviews with this condition; on March 9 of that year, during a lecture on political revolutions in London, he commented on the treatment he had been receiving, and used his paralysis as a metaphor for political idleness. On this list, he clarified: "I opted for pure madness: the list contains only 'guilty pleasures'".
He goes on to list other favourites, including Beethoven 's Fidelio , Schubert 's Winterreise , Mussorgsky 's Khovanshchina and Donizetti 's L'elisir d'amore. He expresses a particular love for Wagner , particularly Das Rheingold and Parsifal. He ranks Schoenberg over Stravinsky , and insists on Eisler 's importance among Schoenberg's followers. For me, always it is Hegel, Hegel, Hegel. Yet, under scrutiny, nothing positive can be said about this subject, this 'I', that eludes symbolisation; it cannot be discerned as anything but "that which cannot be symbolised".
