Judith Miller (; 3 July 1941 – 6 December 2017) was a French

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, born in

Antibes Antibes (, also , ; oc, label=Provençal, Antíbol) is a coastal city in the Alpes-Maritimes department of southeastern France, on the Côte d'Azur between Cannes and Nice. The town of Juan-les-Pins is in the commune of Antibes and the Sop ...

. She was the daughter of the

Jacques Lacan and Sylvia Bataille. Her spouse was

Lacanian Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (, , ; 13 April 1901 – 9 September 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Described as "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud", Lacan gave yearly seminars in Paris from 1953 to 1981, and pu ...

Jacques-Alain Miller Jacques-Alain Miller (; born 14 February 1944) is a psychoanalyst and writer. He is one of the founder members of the École de la Cause freudienne (School of the Freudian Cause) and the World Association of Psychoanalysis which he presided from ...

Work

As a

Maoist Maoism, officially called Mao Zedong Thought by the Chinese Communist Party, is a variety of Marxism–Leninism that Mao Zedong developed to realise a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the Republic of Ch ...

philosophy lecturer at

Vincennes Vincennes (, ) is a commune in the Val-de-Marne department in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. It is next to but does not include the Château de Vincennes and Bois de Vincennes, which are attach ...

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. ...

, Miller's radicalism was used as a reason for her philosophy department to be decertified. This occurred after she handed out

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to someone she met on a bus, and subsequently publicly declared in a radio interview that the university is a

capitalist Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. Central characteristics of capitalism include capital accumulation, competitive markets, price system, pri ...

institution, 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 In France, secondary education is in two stages: * ''Collèges'' () cater for the first four years of secondary education from the ages of 11 to 15. * ''Lycées'' () provide a three-year course of further secondary education for children between ...

teacher.

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: 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

''Psychologues freudiens'' Entretien avec Judith Miller sur le "Champ freudien"

External links

* * 1941 births 2017 deaths People from Antibes French Jews French Maoists French people of Romanian-Jewish descent French philosophers French psychoanalysts Jewish philosophers Jewish socialists Maoist theorists {{France-philosopher-stub