1. Jacques-Alain Miller is one of the founding members of the Ecole de la Cause freudienne and the World Association of Psychoanalysis which he presided from 1992 to 2002.
14 Facts About Jacques-Alain Miller
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Jacques-Alain Miller is the sole editor of the books of The Seminars of Jacques Lacan.
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In 1962, Miller entered the Ecole Normale Superieure where he studied with Louis Althusser.
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Jacques-Alain Miller's written texts from this early period are published in the Gallimard collection, Un debut dans la vie which includes his interview with Sartre and the influential text presented at Lacan's Seminar, "Suture: Elements of the Logic of the Signifier".
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Jacques-Alain Miller's teaching from this period took on the name L'Orientation lacanienne and gave rise to published texts on Bentham, Peirce and Church.
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In 1973, Jacques-Alain Miller transcribed Lacan's the 1964 Seminar on The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis which was to lead to a lifelong commitment to establishing the full series of Lacan's annual Parisian Seminar.
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Jacques-Alain Miller contributed in 1973 to the two-part televised programme that later became known as "Television".
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Jacques-Alain Miller resumed his weekly seminars in 1980, thus opening the series known as L'Orientation lacanienne II.
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Over this decade, Jacques-Alain Miller established Book III and Book VII of Lacan's Seminar.
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In 1992, Jacques-Alain Miller launched the World Association of Psychoanalysis which grouped together the Ecole de la Cause freudienne, the European School of Psychoanalysis, and the Escuela de la Orientacion Lacaniana, and soon thereafter oversaw the creation of Schools in Brazil, Spain and Italy which were likewise included in the WAP.
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Jacques-Alain Miller was invited to attend the 1997 IPA Congress in Barcelona where his remarks from the floor were greeted with warm applause.
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Jacques-Alain Miller stated his case, publishing a first letter on 3 September 2001.
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In 2003, Jacques-Alain Miller founded the New Lacanian School, which groups together the societies from the UK, Belgium, Switzerland, Israel, and Greece along with affiliated groups from Ireland and Eastern Europe.
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In 2008, at the time of the sixth WAP Congress, Jacques-Alain Miller delivered a lecture before a 1,700 strong audience at the Teatro Coliseo.