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33'''Jacques-34 COnversations[[Alain]] Miller''' - the son-in-law of [[France|French]] [[psychoanalysis|psychoanalyst]] [[Jacques Lacan]] (in 1967 he [[married]] [[Lacan]]'s daughter [[Jacques-Alain Miller|Judith Miller]]) - is a prominent [[Lacanian]] [[psychoanalyst]].

'''Jacques-Alain Miller''' - the son-in-law of [[France|French]] [[psychoanalysis|psychoanalyst]] [[Jacques Lacan]] (in 1967 he married Lacan's daughter [[Judith Miller (philosopher)|Judith Miller]]) - is a prominent Lacanian psychoanalyst, if not the pre-eminent Lacanian psychoanalyst. As a student at the [[École Normale Supérieure]], he met Lacan in 1964 while attending his [[seminars ]] at the rue d'Ulm. After having read everything Lacan had thus far published, he asked him, "Does your [[notion ]] of the [[subject ]] imply an [[ontology]]?" and an entente was made with him. In 1966 he founded ''Cahiers pour l'[[Analyse]]'', a seminal publication whose editorial board included Alain [[Badiou]], François Regnault and [[Jean-Claude Milner]]. He was the editor of ''[[Ornicar]]?'' when Lacan announced the [[dissolution ]] of L'Ecole Française de [[Psychanalyse]], and the foundation of L'École de la [[Cause ]] Freudienne.

After Lacan's death in 1980At the École Normale Supérieure, Miller studied with [[Louis Althusser]] at the same [[time]] as [[Jacques Derrida]] and [[Jacques-Alain Miller started in 1983 his own weekly seminarsRancière]], called "L'Orientation lacanienne" intended to expound and elucidate Lacan's work. He became but soon he was following the editor [[teachings]] of [[Jacques Lacan's seminars, having so far published half of them ]] who in French1964 has been appointed lecturer at the École Pratique des Hautes [[Etudes]]. He also supervised [[Althusser]] assigned him the English translations task of [[reading]] of "all of Lacan's work: "Écrits", and Miller carried out the task admiringly: it is him who asks Lacan the seminars, famous question: "The Four Fundamental Concepts Does your notion of Psychoanalysisthe subject imply an ontology?", "The Ethics of Psychoanalysis", ''Encore - On feminine Sexuality'In time he would become instrumental in Lacan's Ecole Freudienne de [[Paris]]. In 2001 he started a series of public interventions on behalf When Lacan moves to the [[University]] of [[Vincennes]] - the independence Department of psychoanalysis vis[[Psychoanalysis]] is renamed "Le [[Champ]] freudien" -à-vis government control in France. He wrote ''First Letter addressed by Lacan becomes its director, and Jacques-Alain Miller to An Enlightened Publicthe president. Lacan'', "Clear Like Day Letter" and "The Tenderness s dissolution of the École Française de Psychanalyse in 1980 is followed by the creation of Terrorism" where La [[cause freudienne]]. Soon he asserted dies leaving Miller as the sole editor of his Seminars, an endeavor that "an analyst is only authorized by her/himself (Lacan's dictum: lwill require Miller'analyste ne s'autorise que de lui-même)entire [[life]].

At the same time Jacques-Alain Miller was responsible for an enormous expansion of Lacanian study groups throughtout the world: Spain, Great Britain and Italy who had married Lacan's daughter, started in Europe1983 his own weekly seminars, called "L'Orientation lacanienne" intended to expound and Argentina and Brazil elucidate Lacan's [[work]]. As the editor of Jacques Lacan's seminars, having so far published half of [[them]] in Latin America[[French]]. In He also supervised the early nineties, Miller[[English]] translations of Lacan's work began to be translated into English : "[[Écrits]]", and published in the United States trough the New York based cultural journal seminars, "Lacanian InkThe Four Fundamental [[Concepts]] of Psychoanalysis". More recently other groups have taken root in America, notably in Omaha"The [[Ethics]] of Psychoanalysis", Nebraska and around Columbia University in New York''[[Encore]] - On [[feminine]] [[Sexuality]]''. In 1992 Miller set up 2001 he started a series of [[public]] interventions on behalf of the independence of psychoanalysis vis-à-vis [[World Association of Psychoanalysisgovernment]] [[control]], WAP, in order [[France]]. He wrote ''First [[Letter]] addressed by Jacques-Alain Miller to advance LacanAn Enlightened Public''s teachings and today has over a thousand members in Europe, America "Clear Like Day Letter" and Australia. "The WAP creates Schools Tenderness of [[Terrorism]]" where he asserted that transmit psychoanalysis, ensure the formation of analysts, guarantee their qualification and the quality of their practice"an [[analyst]] is only authorized by her/himself (Lacan's dictum: l'[[analyste]] ne s'autorise que de lui-même).

At the same time Miller was [[responsible]] for an enormous expansion of Lacanian study groups throughout the [[world]]: Spain, Great [[Britain]] and Italy in [[Europe]], and [[Argentina]] and [[Brazil]] in [[Latin]] America. In the early nineties, Miller's work began to be translated into English and published in the [[United States]] through the New York-based [[cultural]] journal [[Lacanian Ink]]. More recently [[other]] groups have taken root in America, notably in Omaha, Nebraska and around Columbia University in New York. In 1992 Miller set up the [[World Association of Psychoanalysis]], WAP, in [[order]] to advance Lacan's teachings. Today it has over a thousand members in Europe, America and Australia. The WAP creates [[Schools]] that transmit psychoanalysis, ensure the [[formation]] of [[analysts]], [[guarantee]] their qualification and the quality of their [[practice]]. Within the [[frame ]] of his "Orientation lacanienne" Miller works in conjunction with other European [[philosophers ]] such as [[Slavoj Zizek ]] and [[Alain Badiou]].  ==References==*[http://www.causefreudienne.org École de la Cause Freudienne]*[http://www.lacan.com/journal. htm Les Cahiers pour l'Analyse]

*[http://www.lacan.com/bibliographyjam.htm Bibliography in English]*[http://www.lacan.com/journalframeXXVI2.htm Les Cahiers pour lReading Jacques Lacan'Analyses Seminar on Anxiety - I]*[http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXVII2.htm Reading Jacques Lacan's Seminar on Anxiety - II]

*[http://www.lacan.com/millerlecture.htm Jacques-Alain Miller Live] Ten Lectures at France-[[Culture ]] - Summer 2005 {{LA}}pp. 38, 94–95, 135* {{Z}} ''[[Conversations with Žižek|Conversations with Žižek: Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly]]''. [[London]]: Polity Press, 2004. pp. 33-34 ==References==<references/>

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