Boštjan Nedoh
Biographic Data
| ID | 596449 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Boštjan Nedoh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Boštjan |
| FAMILY NAME | Nedoh |
| SIGNATURE | NEDOH B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5907-5996 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
When the groups (do not) fall apart: Panic and anxiety in Freud’s “Group Psychology”
This article examines Freud’s treatment of panic in Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego , where it appears as both the affect of group disintegration and an ill-defined form of anxiety. By connecting this problem to Freud’s later theory of anxiety in Inhibition, Symptom and Anxiety and Lacan’s elaboration of anxiety, the article argues that panic functions less as collapse and more as a defensive mechanism that sustains minimal symbolic …
Introduction: Perversion and Power Today
Between dirty and necessary: The politics of the superego and the jouissance of transgression in Chicago PD television series
The article first resumes up-to-date conceptualisations of the superego in psychoanalytic theory, stretching from the superegoic sense of guilt (Freud) up to the superego as an "imperative od jouissance" (Lacan), and at the same time as an imperative of transgression insofar as enjoyment is by definition based upon transgression of the law. Against this background, the article develops another conceptualisation of the superego, which consist in t…
Nihilopolitics as Meta-biopolitics? On Arthur Bradley's Unbearable Life: A Genealogy of Political Erasure
This article begins by introducing Bradley's master concept of unbearable life and its underpinning structure and logic of nihilopolitics through the ancient Roman figure of damnatio memoriae. It then gives an overview of how both unbearable life and nihilopolitics are reflected in and supported by Bradley's close readings of different political theological figures, stretching from Foucault (the unbearable), passing through Augustine (Cacus), Sha…
‘Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds’: Science, perversion, psychoanalysis
This article offers a critical examination of the contemporary imperative to ‘trust science’ from the point of view of Lacanian psychoanalysis. It begins by putting contemporary scientific research in the twentieth-century historical context of the ‘military-industrial complex’ (D. Eisenhower) in which science and technology become symbiotically connected to the military. It then examines the psychic structure driving the military-industrial comp…
When the Tiger Leaps Into the Past: Holocaust, History, and Messianic Materialism in Giorgio Agamben, Walter Benjamin, and László Nemes’son of Saul
This article examines Giorgio Agamben's rejection of the religious term Holocaust as a name for the extermination of the Jewish people. Agamben rejects this term (and eventually prefers the term Shoah) in so far as it implies a sacrificial exchange with the divine. He argues that the Jews were not killed as sacrificial victims but as (biopolitical) homines sacri. Yet, in so doing, Agamben also denies the redemptive potential of the term Holocaust…
Mass Migrations as a Messianic Event? Rereading Agamben’s State of Exception in Light of the Refugee Crisis in Europe
In 2015 and 2016, with the opening of the “Balkan refugee route,” Europe faced the greatest refugee crisis since World War II. Considering the fact that masses of refugees crossed the borders of EU states “illegally,” therein demonstrating an effective suspension of the Schengen border regime, this crisis brought into crisis the sovereignties of the nation-states as well. In this context, the article will try to offer a rereading of Giorgio Agamb…
Alive or Undead? Biopolitics between Esposito's Vitalism and Lacanian Psychoanalysis
This article tries to establish a possible dialogue between the way in which two influential contemporary theories, Roberto Esposito's biopolitical theory and Jacques Lacan's psychoanalysis, approach racism and the constitution of Otherness. After summing up key concepts in Esposito's theory, the article lays out the very deadlock in his work, represented by his assumption of racial difference or Otherness as inscribed in the bio-logical content …
Introduction: Italian Biopolitical Theory and Beyond: Genealogy, Psychoanalysis and Biology
Over the last two decades Italian biopolitical theory has ignited a series of fierce debates, in both philosophy and the social sciences. On the one hand, so-called ‘Italian Theory’ remains to date a highly problematic phrase; it is both too general, attempting to coalesce under its label a vast array of positions that remain in the end incompatible, and too specific, given the risk of resurrecting the frankly outdated category of national philos…
Messianism between religion and post-religion: On Giorgio Agamben's “new politics”
The article discusses the paradoxical status of messianism in Giorgio Agamben’s political philosophy. This status conveys most of all in the specific location that messianism assumes with regard to religion. Agamben himself, as well as main interpretations, conceive messianism as a “limit point” in which “religious experience passes beyond itself”, and therefore as a non-religious phenomenon. After briefly summing up the main conceptual line that…
Kafka's Land Surveyor K: Agamben's Anti-Muselmann
This paper first outlines the key traits of some critiques of Agamben’s theory of the subject. What they have in common is an emphasis on the limitations of his conception of political agency, which is based on the one hand on an apathetic and passive figure such as the Muselmann, and on the other, on Bartleby, the Scrivener, who epitomises Agamben’s notion of potentiality. Following this short review I then focus on Agamben’s recent article “K.,…
Mass Migrations as a Messianic Event? Rereading Agamben’s State of Exception in Light of the Refugee Crisis in Europe
In 2015 and 2016, with the opening of the “Balkan refugee route,” Europe faced the greatest refugee crisis since World War II. Considering the fact that masses of refugees crossed the borders of EU states “illegally,” therein demonstrating an effective suspension of the Schengen border regime, this crisis brought into crisis the sovereignties of the nation-states as well. In this context, the article will try to offer a rereading of Giorgio Agamb…
When the Tiger Leaps Into the Past: Holocaust, History, and Messianic Materialism in Giorgio Agamben, Walter Benjamin, and László Nemes’son of Saul
This article examines Giorgio Agamben's rejection of the religious term Holocaust as a name for the extermination of the Jewish people. Agamben rejects this term (and eventually prefers the term Shoah) in so far as it implies a sacrificial exchange with the divine. He argues that the Jews were not killed as sacrificial victims but as (biopolitical) homines sacri. Yet, in so doing, Agamben also denies the redemptive potential of the term Holocaust…
Kafka's Land Surveyor K: Agamben's Anti-Muselmann
This paper first outlines the key traits of some critiques of Agamben’s theory of the subject. What they have in common is an emphasis on the limitations of his conception of political agency, which is based on the one hand on an apathetic and passive figure such as the Muselmann, and on the other, on Bartleby, the Scrivener, who epitomises Agamben’s notion of potentiality. Following this short review I then focus on Agamben’s recent article “K.,…
Messianism between religion and post-religion: On Giorgio Agamben's “new politics”
The article discusses the paradoxical status of messianism in Giorgio Agamben’s political philosophy. This status conveys most of all in the specific location that messianism assumes with regard to religion. Agamben himself, as well as main interpretations, conceive messianism as a “limit point” in which “religious experience passes beyond itself”, and therefore as a non-religious phenomenon. After briefly summing up the main conceptual line that…
Alive or Undead? Biopolitics between Esposito's Vitalism and Lacanian Psychoanalysis
This article tries to establish a possible dialogue between the way in which two influential contemporary theories, Roberto Esposito's biopolitical theory and Jacques Lacan's psychoanalysis, approach racism and the constitution of Otherness. After summing up key concepts in Esposito's theory, the article lays out the very deadlock in his work, represented by his assumption of racial difference or Otherness as inscribed in the bio-logical content …
Introduction: Italian Biopolitical Theory and Beyond: Genealogy, Psychoanalysis and Biology
Over the last two decades Italian biopolitical theory has ignited a series of fierce debates, in both philosophy and the social sciences. On the one hand, so-called ‘Italian Theory’ remains to date a highly problematic phrase; it is both too general, attempting to coalesce under its label a vast array of positions that remain in the end incompatible, and too specific, given the risk of resurrecting the frankly outdated category of national philos…
Mass Migrations as a Messianic Event? Rereading Agamben’s State of Exception in Light of the Refugee Crisis in Europe
In 2015 and 2016, with the opening of the “Balkan refugee route,” Europe faced the greatest refugee crisis since World War II. Considering the fact that masses of refugees crossed the borders of EU states “illegally,” therein demonstrating an effective suspension of the Schengen border regime, this crisis brought into crisis the sovereignties of the nation-states as well. In this context, the article will try to offer a rereading of Giorgio Agamb…
When the Tiger Leaps Into the Past: Holocaust, History, and Messianic Materialism in Giorgio Agamben, Walter Benjamin, and László Nemes’son of Saul
This article examines Giorgio Agamben's rejection of the religious term Holocaust as a name for the extermination of the Jewish people. Agamben rejects this term (and eventually prefers the term Shoah) in so far as it implies a sacrificial exchange with the divine. He argues that the Jews were not killed as sacrificial victims but as (biopolitical) homines sacri. Yet, in so doing, Agamben also denies the redemptive potential of the term Holocaust…
‘Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds’: Science, perversion, psychoanalysis
This article offers a critical examination of the contemporary imperative to ‘trust science’ from the point of view of Lacanian psychoanalysis. It begins by putting contemporary scientific research in the twentieth-century historical context of the ‘military-industrial complex’ (D. Eisenhower) in which science and technology become symbiotically connected to the military. It then examines the psychic structure driving the military-industrial comp…
Nihilopolitics as Meta-biopolitics? On Arthur Bradley's Unbearable Life: A Genealogy of Political Erasure
This article begins by introducing Bradley's master concept of unbearable life and its underpinning structure and logic of nihilopolitics through the ancient Roman figure of damnatio memoriae. It then gives an overview of how both unbearable life and nihilopolitics are reflected in and supported by Bradley's close readings of different political theological figures, stretching from Foucault (the unbearable), passing through Augustine (Cacus), Sha…
Introduction: Perversion and Power Today
Between dirty and necessary: The politics of the superego and the jouissance of transgression in Chicago PD television series
The article first resumes up-to-date conceptualisations of the superego in psychoanalytic theory, stretching from the superegoic sense of guilt (Freud) up to the superego as an "imperative od jouissance" (Lacan), and at the same time as an imperative of transgression insofar as enjoyment is by definition based upon transgression of the law. Against this background, the article develops another conceptualisation of the superego, which consist in t…
When the groups (do not) fall apart: Panic and anxiety in Freud’s “Group Psychology”
This article examines Freud’s treatment of panic in Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego , where it appears as both the affect of group disintegration and an ill-defined form of anxiety. By connecting this problem to Freud’s later theory of anxiety in Inhibition, Symptom and Anxiety and Lacan’s elaboration of anxiety, the article argues that panic functions less as collapse and more as a defensive mechanism that sustains minimal symbolic …
Sociology (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Psychoanalysis (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Political Theology and Sovereignty (5 works) · Theology (5 works)