Judith Miller (philosopher)

Born Judith Bataille in Antibes, she was the daughter of psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan and Sylvia Bataille, then still married to, though separated from, Georges Bataille.^[1] Judith married the Lacanian analyst Jacques-Alain Miller in November 1966.^[1][2]

In 1968, Michel Foucault recruited her, along with Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière, Etienne Balibar and others, to teach philosophy at the newly-founded University of Paris VIII.^[1] The same year, Miller and her husband joined the Maoist Gauche Prolétarienne.^[1] Miller earnt notoriety by handing out course credit to strangers on a bus, describing the university as "a figment of capitalist society", and threatening, in a March 1970 interview with L'Express, to do everything she could to make it run as badly as possible.^[2][3][4] Miller was barred from university teaching, though permitted to teach in a lycée; and certification was removed from the entire philosophy department.^[1][4]

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

With her husband, Miller edited the series "Champ freudien" published by Éditions du Seuil. The series had been founded by her father.^[1]

• Album Jacques Lacan: Visages de mon père. Paris: Seuil, 1990.

• "Métaphysique de la physique de Galilée", Cahiers pour l’Analyse, 9.9 (1968).
• Interview with Pierre Klossowski in Hervé Castanet, Pierre Klossowski, la pantomime des esprits (Nantes: C. Defaut, 2007).
• "Lacan, Music" (with Diego Masson), Lacanian Ink, no. 39 (Spring 2012).

• Le Champ freudien à travers le monde: Textes recueillis, Paris: Seuil, 1986.
• L'Avenir de l'autisme avec Rosine et Robert Lefort. Paris: Navarin, 2010.