In "Across the Real," Slavoj Žižek discusses psychoanalysis, history, contingency, communism, revolutions, Christianity and religion, society and media, literature and film – in short: the present we live in and how to think about it. Slavoj Žižek's thought cannot be reduced to any of the components that make it up. He is an insatiable thinker of the real, who virtuously shifts and transcends the boundaries between the concrete and the abstract. The conversations with Fabien Tarby provide access to the central themes of his vibrant and engaged theory, which is in constant dialogue with Lacan, Marx, and Hegel, and illuminate his friendly disagreements with Alain Badiou. However, it also addresses the Balkans' relationships with the world, Deleuze and Derrida, politics, myths, and cinema.