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

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, born in

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. She was the daughter of the

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and Sylvia Bataille. Her spouse was Lacanian Jacques-Alain Miller.

Work

As a

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philosophy lecturer at

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, 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

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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

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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

Sources

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

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