Psychoanalysis

Set of therapeutic techniques established by Sigmund Freud

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2025 Slavoj Žižek publishes book 'Against Progress'
2024
Marilyn Monroe
The Los Angeles City Council approved Marilyn Monroe's house as a Historic Cultural Monument, officially recognizing her cultural significance and preserving her architectural legacy.
2024 Third installment of Bhool Bhulaiyaa released, featuring Kartik Aaryan reprising his role as Rooh Baba, with the return of Vidya Balan as Manjulika, and new additions Madhuri Dixit and Triptii Dimri.
August 2024
Manichitrathazhu
The film is re-released in theatres, 30 years after its original release.
August 17 2024
Manichitrathazhu
A digitally remastered 4K Dolby Atmos version of Manichitrathazhu was released in theatres.
April 2024 Žižek criticized Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip.
2023 In a piece for Compact Magazine, Žižek took a strong stance against access to puberty blockers for trans youth and criticized the placement of trans adults in prisons matching their gender, linking his arguments to what he described as 'wokeness.'
October 12 2023 The Frasier revival series premiered on Paramount+.
2022
Heinz Kohut
Charles B. Strozier, Konstantine Pinteris, Kathleen Kelley, and Deborah Cher published 'The New World of Self, Heinz Kohut's Transformation of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy' through Oxford University Press, offering a contemporary analysis of Kohut's lasting influence.
2022 Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2, a spiritual sequel directed by Anees Bazmee, was released starring Kartik Aaryan, Tabu, and Kiara Advani.
2022 In his book 'Heaven in Disorder', Žižek reiterated his preference for Joe Biden over Donald Trump, criticizing Trump for corroding the ethical substance of life while portraying Biden as a more genteel representative of big capital.
2022 Žižek showed his support for the Slovenian political party Levica (The Left) during its 5th annual conference.
2022 In an opinion article for The Guardian, Žižek argued for full support of Ukraine following the Russian invasion and called for a stronger NATO in response to Russian aggression.
November 29 2022
The Amityville Curse
Blu-ray distribution expanded to other retailers.
October 25 2022
The Amityville Curse
Vinegar Syndrome releases the film on Blu-ray for the first time, exclusively through their online store.
2021 The film 'Bliss' was released.
2020 Žižek revealed that he was reconsidering his views on Trump, stating 'Trump is a little too much' and indicating a shift in preference towards Joe Biden.
2019 In 2019, Slavoj Žižek asserted that 'For me, in some sense, all of philosophy happened in [the] fifty years' between Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) and the death of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1831).
2019 Žižek defended his support for Trump, arguing that the election 'created a true American left' by energizing figures like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
2019 In the article 'Transgender dogma is naive and incompatible with Freud', Žižek explored the tension in LGBT+ ideology between social constructivism and biological determinism, proposing a 'Freudian solution' to this ideological deadlock.
2019 In a 2019 article, Žižek highlighted Marx's view that the market economy uniquely combines political and personal freedom with social unfreedom.
2019 Žižek began hosting a mini-series titled 'How to Watch the News with Slavoj Žižek' on the RT network.
2019 Žižek co-signed a petition condemning the use of disproportionate force by the Hong Kong Police against students during the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests, advocating for academic freedom and the safety of students.
April 2019 Žižek debated psychology professor Jordan Peterson at the Sony Centre in Toronto, Canada, discussing happiness under capitalism versus Marxism.
2018 The short film 'Turn On' was released.
March 9 2018 During a lecture on political revolutions in London, Žižek discussed his experience with Bell's palsy and used it as a metaphor for political idleness.
2017
Manichitrathazhu
Manichitrathazhu was listed among the '70 Iconic Films of Indian Cinema' by Mint.
2017 Žižek expressed that one could not choose between Macron and Le Pen in the context of the upcoming French presidential election, arguing that Macron's neoliberalism contributes to the rise of neofascism.
2016 Frasier's Emmy Award record of 37 Primetime Emmy Awards was broken by Game of Thrones, which won 38 awards.
2016 The film 'Risk' was released.
2016 Žižek became a member of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), which was founded in 2016.
2016 The film 'Houston, We Have a Problem!' was released.
2016 In an interview with Channel 4, Žižek stated that if he were American, he would vote for Donald Trump in the 2016 United States presidential election, a stance that was criticized by various commentators.
2016 Žižek published 'The Sexual Is Political', where he argued that all subjects, including transgender subjects, are in conflict with the sexual positions assigned to them, advocating for a 'GENERAL GENDER' bathroom as a solution.
January 2016
Manichitrathazhu
Fazil revealed in Manorama Weekly's Ormapookkal article that Durga, a Tamil dubbing artist, was hired to dub Nagavalli's voice during post-production, contrary to the previous belief that Bhagyalakshmi was the sole dubbing artist for Shobana in the film Manichitrathazhu.
2014 Žižek rejected the 'pseudo-Marxist' total derision of 'formal freedom', asserting its importance for critique, stating that awareness of limitations in freedom arises only when one is formally free.
2014 Žižek was accused of self-plagiarism by The New York Times after he published an op-ed that contained portions of his earlier writings.
July 2014 Newsweek reported that in July 2014, bloggers led by Steve Sailer discovered that Žižek had plagiarized long passages from a 2006 article, copying from a review by Stanley Hornbeck published in a journal associated with white nationalism.
2013
Manichitrathazhu
In an online poll by IBN Live celebrating 100 years of Indian cinema, Manichitrathazhu was voted second among India's greatest films by audience vote.
2013 The film 'Balkan Spirit' was released.
2013 Slavoj Žižek corresponded with imprisoned Russian activist and Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova.
November 14 2013
Manichitrathazhu
Release of the spin-off film Geethaanjali, directed by Priyadarshan. Mohanlal reprised his role as Sunny, and Suresh Gopi appeared in a cameo as Nakulan.
May 2013 During the Subversive Festival, Žižek commented that those who do not support SYRIZA would receive from him a 'first-class one-way ticket to a gulag', leading to controversy and claims from the center-right New Democracy party that his remarks should be taken literally.
2012
Jacques Lacan
Noam Chomsky publicly criticized Lacan in an interview on Veterans Unplugged, calling him a 'total charlatan' who was merely 'posturing for the television cameras' in the typical style of Paris intellectuals.
2012 In the Sight & Sound critics' poll, Žižek listed his 10 favourite films, which he referred to as 'guilty pleasures'.
2012 Žižek was listed by Foreign Policy as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers, being referred to as 'a celebrity philosopher'.
2012 The film 'The Pervert's Guide to Ideology' was released.
2012 The film 'Catastroika' was released.
2011 Žižek was featured in the documentary 'Marx Reloaded', directed by Jason Barker.

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