Catherine Millot

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Catherine Millot (born 1944) is a French Lacanian 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.{{cite book|author=Elaine Hoffman Baruch|title=Women Analyze Women: In France, England, and the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s47r1Cj9y_MC&pg=PA87|year=1991|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=978-0-8147-1170-5|pages=87–98}} 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.[http://www.psychoanalytikerinnen.de/france_biographies.html#Millot Catherine Millot (*1944)] In 1975 she started teaching in the department of psychoanalysis at Paris VIII.

In 1983 in her book Horsexe, she asserted her belief that transgender women's gender identity is "psychotic".