Catherine Millot
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Catherine Millot (born 1944) is a French Lacanian psychoanalyst and author, professor of psychoanalysis at the University of Paris-VIII.
Millot studied philosophy before turning to psychoanalysis. In 1971 she started an eight-year analysis with Lacan, and attended his seminars from 1971 until his death.[1] Her thesis, turned into the book Freud anti-pédagogue, 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 is "psychotic" and relies inappropriately on ideals and stereotypes of femininity.[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]- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b Catherine Millot (*1944)
