Ian Parker is Professor of Management in the School of Management at the University of Leicester and President of the College of Psychoanalysts-UK. He is the author of Psychology and Society (Pluto, 1996), Slavoj Zizek: A Critical Introduction (Pluto, 2004), Revolution in Psychology (Pluto, 2007) and Revolutionary Keywords for a New Left (2015).

'When I read Ian Parker's manuscript, I experienced an underlying solidarity: despite obvious differences, we share the same basic political concerns and visions. And this makes his critical remarks always pertinent!'

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction: something retroactive and some anticipation Zizek’s sublime objectsMapping this bookSome indivisible reminders1. Yugoslavia – to SloveniaThe perfection of the stateBrotherhood and unityThe Slovene springs2. Enlightenment – with HegelThe thing with HegelRevolutionary fractureRedemptive closure3. Psychoanalysis – from LacanThe disappearing subjectThe object of analysisClinic of the world4. Politics – repeating MarxAgainst the rules of the gameCommunity and enmityDid somebody say Marxism? 5. Culture – acting outZizek’s just dessertsAsymmetry: machine, object, applicationThe wrong manNotes and referencesBibliographyIndex

Ian Parker is Professor of Management in the School of Management at the University of Leicester and President of the College of Psychoanalysts-UK. He is the author of Psychology and Society (Pluto, 1996), Slavoj Zizek: A Critical Introduction (Pluto, 2004), Revolution in Psychology (Pluto, 2007) and Revolutionary Keywords for a New Left (2015).

'When I read Ian Parker's manuscript, I experienced an underlying solidarity: despite obvious differences, we share the same basic political concerns and visions. And this makes his critical remarks always pertinent!'

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction: something retroactive and some anticipation Zizek’s sublime objectsMapping this bookSome indivisible reminders1. Yugoslavia – to SloveniaThe perfection of the stateBrotherhood and unityThe Slovene springs2. Enlightenment – with HegelThe thing with HegelRevolutionary fractureRedemptive closure3. Psychoanalysis – from LacanThe disappearing subjectThe object of analysisClinic of the world4. Politics – repeating MarxAgainst the rules of the gameCommunity and enmityDid somebody say Marxism? 5. Culture – acting outZizek’s just dessertsAsymmetry: machine, object, applicationThe wrong manNotes and referencesBibliographyIndex