Catherine Millot (born 1944) is a French

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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. 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.Catherine Millot (*1944)
/ref> In 1975 she started teaching in the department of psychoanalysis at

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. In 1983 in her book ''Horsexe,'' she asserted her belief that

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's gender identity is "psychotic".

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,

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. L'intelligence de la perversion'', Gallimard, 1997 * ''Abîmes ordinaires'', 2001 * ''La vie parfaite.

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'', 2006 * ''Ô solitude'', 2011

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Millot, Catherine 1944 births Living people French psychoanalysts Place of birth missing (living people) Academic staff of the University of Paris