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Interview
Slavoj Žižek
In a London café, Anja Steinbauer chats with the philosopher who invented the word ‘idiosyncratic’.
So Professor Žižek –
Don’t call me professor if you don’t want me to kill you. I feel so uneasy when someone calls me professor. Where is the professor? I have a deep problem with any official titles and so on. I’m not proud of it. When someone calls me professor I take it automatically as an irony.
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