Catherine Millot
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Catherine Millot (French: [mijo]; 4 September 1944 – 24 August 2026) was a French Lacanian psychoanalyst and author, who was a professor of psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII.
Life and career
[edit]Millot was born in Villars-les-Dombes. She studied philosophy at the University of Paris before turning to psychoanalysis. In 1971 she started an eight-year analysis with Lacan, and attended his seminars from 1971 until his death.[1]
In 1979, she completed a doctoral thesis on education in Freud's work, supervised by Yvon Belaval, at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. Her thesis, turned into the book Freud anti-pédagogue (1979), argued that pedagogy could not be based on psychoanalysis, since the role of analyst involved a radical openness to lack which was incompatible with the role of teacher.[2] In 1975 she started teaching in the department of psychoanalysis at Paris VIII.[1]
In 1983, in her book Horsexe, she asserted her belief that transgender women's gender identity involves a "psychotic" identification with an idealized figure of "the Woman."[2]
Works
[edit]- Freud anti-pédagogue, 1979
- Horsexe. Essai sur le transsexualisme, 1983. Translated as Horsexe. Essay on Transsexuality, 1990
- Nobodaddy. L'hystérie dans le siècle, Distribution Distique, 1988
- La vocation de l'écrivain, Gallimard, 1991
- Gide, Genet, Mishima. L'intelligence de la perversion, Gallimard, 1997
- Abîmes ordinaires, 2001
- La vie parfaite. Jeanne Guyon, Simone Weil, Etty Hillesum, 2006
- Ô solitude, 2011
References
[edit]- 1 2 Elaine Hoffman Baruch (1991). Women Analyze Women: In France, England, and the United States. NYU Press. pp. 87–98. ISBN 978-0-8147-1170-5.
- 1 2 Catherine Millot (*1944)
- ↑ "Madame Catherine Millot". Simplifia. Retrieved 31 August 2026.
