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Slavoj Zizek has advanced the field of emotional geographies, as well as our understandings of emotion, space, and society.

Slavoj Zizek provides a rich social theoretical vocabulary that can help explain cultural discontent, how emotional worlds bond and fall apart, why there is no guaranteed harmony in love with our partner, and how emotional worlds are organized in ways so that people can hold onto something that resembles ‘subjectivity’ and ‘reality’.