Catherine Millot

Catherine Millot (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 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. 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. In 1975 she started teaching in the department of psychoanalysis at Paris VIII.

Works 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