Catherine Millot (; 4 September 1944 – 24 August 2026) was a French Lacanian psychoanalyst and author, who was a professor of psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII.
Life and career Millot was born in Villars-les-Dombes. She studied philosophy at the University of Paris before turning to psychoanalysis. In 1971 she started an eight-year analysis with Lacan, and attended his seminars from 1971 until his death.
In 1979, she completed a doctoral thesis on education in Freud's work, supervised by , at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. Her thesis, turned into the book Freud anti-pédagogue (1979), 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) 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 involves a "psychotic" identification with an idealized figure of "the Woman."
Millot died on 24 August 2026 in Nice, at the age of 81.
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, Mishima. L'intelligence de la perversion, Gallimard, 1997 Abîmes ordinaires, 2001 La vie parfaite. Jeanne Guyon, Simone Weil, Etty Hillesum, 2006 Ô solitude, 2011
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