Editing Judith Miller (philosopher)

{{short description|French psychoanalyst (1941–2017)}}
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'''Judith Miller''' ({{IPA|fr|milɛʁ|lang}}; 3 July 1941 – 6 December 2017) was a French [[psychoanalyst]], born in [[Antibes]]. She was the daughter of the [[psychoanalyst]] [[Jacques Lacan]] and [[Sylvia Bataille]]. Her spouse was [[Lacanianism|Lacanian]] [[Jacques-Alain Miller]].

==Work==
As a [[Maoist]] philosophy lecturer at [[University of Paris VIII]] in [[Paris]], Miller's radicalism was used as a reason for her philosophy department to be decertified.<ref>{{cite book|last=Roudinesco|first=Élisabeth|authorlink=Élisabeth Roudinesco|title=Jacques Lacan & Co. : a history of psychoanalysis in France, 1925-1985|year=1990|publisher=University of Chicago Press|location=Chicago|isbn=978-0-226-72997-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mmBIght4dVgC&dq=%22Judith+Miller%22++Vincennes++philosophy&pg=PA558|accessdate=5 February 2011|page=558|quote=A few months later, Michele Manceaux decided to publish her interview with Judith Miller in the press. At the time, the interviewee had no reaction ... He did so, and also withdrew certification for degrees in philosophy from Vincennes. ...}}</ref> This occurred after she handed out [[course credit]] to someone she met on a bus, and subsequently publicly declared in a radio interview that the university is a [[capitalist]] institution,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BODdpZCvvrQC&dq=Judith+Miller+%28philosopher%29&pg=PA180|title=The Passion of Michel Foucault|last=Miller|first=James|date=2000|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=9780674001572|language=en}}</ref> and that she would do everything she could to make it run as badly as possible. After this, she was demoted by the French education department to a [[lycée]] teacher.{{citation needed|date=September 2014}}

==Death==
Judith Miller died on 6 December 2017 in Paris, aged 76.

==Works==
* "Métaphysique de la physique de Galilée", ''[[Cahiers pour l’Analyse]]'' 9.9 (1968)
* ''Le Champ freudien à travers le monde: textes recueillis'', Paris: [[Éditions du Seuil|Seuil]], 1986.
* ''Album Jacques Lacan: visages de mon père'', Paris: Seuil, 1990
* (with Hervé Castanet) ''Pierre Klossowski, la pantomime des esprits : suivi d'un entretien de Pierre Klossowski avec Judith Miller'', Nantes: C. Defaut, 2007

==References==
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==Sources==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070507170152/http://www.psychologuesfreudiens.org/article.php3?id_article=130 ''Psychologues freudiens'' Entretien avec Judith Miller sur le "Champ freudien"].

==External links==
* {{cite web|url=http://cahiers.kingston.ac.uk/names/miller-judith.html |work=Concept and Form: The Cahiers pour l’Analyse and Contemporary French Thought |title=Judith Miller (1941-) |accessdate=20 September 2014}}

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