My sister has started to psychoanalyze me with this:
http://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Lacan/dp/0393329550
So i have started to read that too...
Bums me out man.
I seriously have a hard time believing that Lacanian analysis is an actual thing (even though I know it is). Trying to analyze someone using Žižek seems even more insane (no offense to your sister). I love Žižek but I think his work makes a lot more sense as criticism/philosophy. But then again I've never been able to stick with a therapist for more than a few months, so Žižekian analysis might be exactly what I need.
I have a diametrically opposed notion of Žižek. I absolutely hate all of his so called philosophy and, I am not trying to be arrogant here, think he should adopt a little bit of methodology and tone down the rhetorical tricks and hokum. On the other hand i find his analysis of popular culture and movies at least entertaining and it makes for good reading and watching in case of his movies. I have only been recently introduced to him and if you have the right reading recommendation maybe my perception would shift. Or maybe my rejection is just rooted in my older sister trying to get a handle on me, because I am currently succeeding and she is not.
His one-off books on pop culture are far more fun to read, but they're also what give him a bad rap as a charlatan or whatever. His three or four major works -- starting with
The Sublime Object of Ideology and ending with
The Parallax View (I forget the others but he mentions them in the movie) offer a more coherent worldview.
But if you're into Classical or Enlightenment thought, you will probably never like his work. I have the advantage of being very much a dilettante, and a reluctant academic at best. To the extent that I use philosophy at all, it's for my writing, so I mostly just follow whatever I find interesting.