INTERVIEW WITH GERARD MILLER
THE HOLOCAUST taught me REVOLT
Interview magazine published in Israel in 2008
Despite a tight schedule, Gerard Miller is a man available , attentive and demanding an intellectual. A
" Israel Magazine," we do not share, far from it, all positions of the psychoanalyst's most popular French media landscape, and even Israel. Rest
we can only feel the greatest sympathy for what the psychiatrist famous for interest it bears to another, capable of being both a professor of philosophy and psychoanalysis in the Department of the University of Paris VII, PhD in philosophy and political science and a columnist for " We tried everything." Interview with a utopian
on edge, unconventional and rebellious, but put " a point to go to bed at 21h 31 December .
" This is not because it ends up being cheated by history, he must refrain from taking "
Interview by Stephen Encel and David Reinharc
David Reinharc / Stéphane Encel: The outbreak of the Intifada, and the terrible years that followed, have they changed your view of the situation in the Middle East?
Gerard Miller: That was probably my inflected overview of the situation in the Middle East is the monstrous violence of Palestinian attacks, but also the discovery of extreme Israeli right that I do suspect not important, nor how it could encourage the worst. I do not seek to hold the balance evenly between the two phenomena and certainly not attenuate the abomination of the first, arguing the latter, but I was more appalled by the rise of the extreme right in Israel by Arab extremism, which I had long been identified as such. I remember my innocence at the time of Rabin's death, a Jew killing another Jew, it was not, alas, unpublished, but it still seemed to me as a near impossibility. For anyone other than a Jew it may seem naive or simply stupid, but true: I wished for years to miss this reality, do not see that Jews could be as infamous. Moreover, learning of the crime named Goldstein, cold-blooded killing of Palestinians in Hebron, I accepted without hesitation the theory of "unbalanced marginal" - says it all.
David Reinharc / Stéphane Encel: Have you felt then, around you, a change in Israel and the Jews, a real tension or hostility?
Gerard Miller: I find it difficult to say no, because in my circle, as you say, I had a boyfriend named Dieudonne ! I would see all his shows, I often found him later with Elie Semoun. It is the dominant figure which is not a "change", but an incredible betrayal. For the rest, my family, my friends and even my friends are people who fortunately, on matters as crucial that Israel or anti-Semitism, have not budged an inch. So, I just felt, like everyone else, and therefore beyond my surroundings, something like a raid, I did not want to go see it more closely.
THE HOLOCAUST taught me REVOLT
Interview magazine published in Israel in 2008
Despite a tight schedule, Gerard Miller is a man available , attentive and demanding an intellectual. A
" Israel Magazine," we do not share, far from it, all positions of the psychoanalyst's most popular French media landscape, and even Israel. Rest
we can only feel the greatest sympathy for what the psychiatrist famous for interest it bears to another, capable of being both a professor of philosophy and psychoanalysis in the Department of the University of Paris VII, PhD in philosophy and political science and a columnist for " We tried everything." Interview with a utopian
on edge, unconventional and rebellious, but put " a point to go to bed at 21h 31 December .
" This is not because it ends up being cheated by history, he must refrain from taking "
Interview by Stephen Encel and David Reinharc
David Reinharc / Stéphane Encel: The outbreak of the Intifada, and the terrible years that followed, have they changed your view of the situation in the Middle East?
Gerard Miller: That was probably my inflected overview of the situation in the Middle East is the monstrous violence of Palestinian attacks, but also the discovery of extreme Israeli right that I do suspect not important, nor how it could encourage the worst. I do not seek to hold the balance evenly between the two phenomena and certainly not attenuate the abomination of the first, arguing the latter, but I was more appalled by the rise of the extreme right in Israel by Arab extremism, which I had long been identified as such. I remember my innocence at the time of Rabin's death, a Jew killing another Jew, it was not, alas, unpublished, but it still seemed to me as a near impossibility. For anyone other than a Jew it may seem naive or simply stupid, but true: I wished for years to miss this reality, do not see that Jews could be as infamous. Moreover, learning of the crime named Goldstein, cold-blooded killing of Palestinians in Hebron, I accepted without hesitation the theory of "unbalanced marginal" - says it all.
David Reinharc / Stéphane Encel: Have you felt then, around you, a change in Israel and the Jews, a real tension or hostility?
Gerard Miller: I find it difficult to say no, because in my circle, as you say, I had a boyfriend named Dieudonne ! I would see all his shows, I often found him later with Elie Semoun. It is the dominant figure which is not a "change", but an incredible betrayal. For the rest, my family, my friends and even my friends are people who fortunately, on matters as crucial that Israel or anti-Semitism, have not budged an inch. So, I just felt, like everyone else, and therefore beyond my surroundings, something like a raid, I did not want to go see it more closely.
David Reinharc / Stéphane Encel: You said that you could have written that "we always right to rebel" ; do you persist even though many of these revolts take turns violent, are manipulated, and serve bad causes?
Gerard Miller: I have not changed on this point and I hope to continue. This is not because one ends up dying that we should not live, not because it ends up being cheated by history, he must refrain from taking part. Should we refuse to love a woman today, because we risk to love less tomorrow? If the reasoning is that the revolt may disappoint one day the rebels themselves and that any struggle eventually achieve goals far less gratifying than expected, then enclose us in our room and live like "cold fish". No, not about us "cadavériser" for fear of one day being cheated! I was an inveterate lefty, who could not see beyond the tip of his nose, that is to say who they believed should never bear the unbearable, but the consequences of our actions as often beyond us. Neither at the time of Maoism, or, more recently, at the time of Mitterrand, I never expected the "tomorrows". Some revolutionary thought as the scouts of a people oppressed and weak that he had guided to the light, I was first and foremost anti-authoritarian. Restless, sectarian violence, anything you like. But not crazy to the point of wanting to lead others to happiness! In fact, I'm pretty elementary. When a club falls on a skull, spontaneously, I'm on the side of the skull. Only in a second time I try to analyze what happened ...
Gerard Miller: I have not changed on this point and I hope to continue. This is not because one ends up dying that we should not live, not because it ends up being cheated by history, he must refrain from taking part. Should we refuse to love a woman today, because we risk to love less tomorrow? If the reasoning is that the revolt may disappoint one day the rebels themselves and that any struggle eventually achieve goals far less gratifying than expected, then enclose us in our room and live like "cold fish". No, not about us "cadavériser" for fear of one day being cheated! I was an inveterate lefty, who could not see beyond the tip of his nose, that is to say who they believed should never bear the unbearable, but the consequences of our actions as often beyond us. Neither at the time of Maoism, or, more recently, at the time of Mitterrand, I never expected the "tomorrows". Some revolutionary thought as the scouts of a people oppressed and weak that he had guided to the light, I was first and foremost anti-authoritarian. Restless, sectarian violence, anything you like. But not crazy to the point of wanting to lead others to happiness! In fact, I'm pretty elementary. When a club falls on a skull, spontaneously, I'm on the side of the skull. Only in a second time I try to analyze what happened ...
David Reinharc / Stéphane Encel: Are you among those who worry about the rise, and the installation of anti-Semitism on the left and extreme left?
Gerard Miller: Oh, but there have been a left anti-semitism in the labor movement of the late nineteenth century, when the Jew and capitalism were supposed to mix too! It's always a real possibility, and do not expect me to deny it or to be less virulent against the "anti-Semitic leftist" as against " anti-Semitic right-wing ". Antisemitism is one of the best things in the world and shared the left is not statutorily protected from this abomination. What crimes, moreover, do we not guilty today on behalf of anti-Zionism ... However, I will probably disappoint you, but I do not see a "rise" much less a "installation" of antisemitism in the left or the extreme French left! And if I can clarify this: I think the far more frequent than most of those sounding the alarm.
Gerard Miller: Oh, but there have been a left anti-semitism in the labor movement of the late nineteenth century, when the Jew and capitalism were supposed to mix too! It's always a real possibility, and do not expect me to deny it or to be less virulent against the "anti-Semitic leftist" as against " anti-Semitic right-wing ". Antisemitism is one of the best things in the world and shared the left is not statutorily protected from this abomination. What crimes, moreover, do we not guilty today on behalf of anti-Zionism ... However, I will probably disappoint you, but I do not see a "rise" much less a "installation" of antisemitism in the left or the extreme French left! And if I can clarify this: I think the far more frequent than most of those sounding the alarm.
David Reinharc / Stéphane Encel: Judaism did he ever conditioned to revolt?
Gerard Miller: Absolutely. My father, a doctor, a man was left in an environment marked on the right, but even before it transmits its values to me, I was in my first protest biberon.Toute my family had died in the camps, I am born with an immediate feeling of revolt against the injustice of the abyss. Passivity was the last thing one might expect from me. I belong to a generation that has been twenty years in May 68 and the number of Jews was so massive in the far left that it seemed incongruous to be Jewish and right. Look, this is further proof of my incorrigible naivety!
Gerard Miller: Absolutely. My father, a doctor, a man was left in an environment marked on the right, but even before it transmits its values to me, I was in my first protest biberon.Toute my family had died in the camps, I am born with an immediate feeling of revolt against the injustice of the abyss. Passivity was the last thing one might expect from me. I belong to a generation that has been twenty years in May 68 and the number of Jews was so massive in the far left that it seemed incongruous to be Jewish and right. Look, this is further proof of my incorrigible naivety!
David Reinharc / Stéphane Encel: You may you, like some of your colleagues, a psychoanalysis of religion?
Gerard Miller: No, do not expect me, in this interview, I came to compete ... I will only say this: neither practical nor a believer, I am every day a little more annoyed by the difficulty that we have, publicly, and in particular in the media, talking freely of religion and the Churches. I say it all the more willingly, to confuse the issue, the Voltaire me to stay, working for two years " Life", powerful and friendly Christian magazine, read each week by nearly one million people .
David Reinharc / Stéphane Encel : We are witnessing a religious revival, especially within the Jewish community, what do you attribute?
Gerard Miller : Return of the religious, indeed! One of my daughters, I really have not brought up in religion, married a Jew very religious - which now, for meals, somewhat complicates our family life. I attribute the phenomenon to nothing more than frantic need to believe ... against a world that, every day, we standardized a bit more. Ready to fight, like any Democrat, so that everyone can continue to believe what he wants, I tell you however that when I talk about religion, something rises in me just like a laugh? Do not see my way to react to the tragedy of existence ...
Gerard Miller: No, do not expect me, in this interview, I came to compete ... I will only say this: neither practical nor a believer, I am every day a little more annoyed by the difficulty that we have, publicly, and in particular in the media, talking freely of religion and the Churches. I say it all the more willingly, to confuse the issue, the Voltaire me to stay, working for two years " Life", powerful and friendly Christian magazine, read each week by nearly one million people .
David Reinharc / Stéphane Encel : We are witnessing a religious revival, especially within the Jewish community, what do you attribute?
Gerard Miller : Return of the religious, indeed! One of my daughters, I really have not brought up in religion, married a Jew very religious - which now, for meals, somewhat complicates our family life. I attribute the phenomenon to nothing more than frantic need to believe ... against a world that, every day, we standardized a bit more. Ready to fight, like any Democrat, so that everyone can continue to believe what he wants, I tell you however that when I talk about religion, something rises in me just like a laugh? Do not see my way to react to the tragedy of existence ...
David Reinharc / Stéphane Encel: Whether you inspires the course of Benny Levy?
GM I have long campaigned with him in the revolutionary organization that was created after May 68: I think its course both highly respected and deeply funny. Since I do not think people change at all in all - that's my Freudian side - it amuses me a lot of thinking we were headed for years, and for actions as leftists than we have conducted by a rabbi ...!
David Reinharc / Stéphane Encel Get a distinction between religion and tradition?
Gerard Miller: I think the weight of history, I believe in the past I feel every moment of my putting in the footsteps of my father, my mother, who preceded them. Without ever find myself so far into religion, I have always been sensitive to tradition. But not only to the Jewish tradition! As I live in France, well, for example, I celebrate Christmas every year my children have always received gifts for the occasion, at home, three weeks before the fateful date, there is a beautiful tree, that 'in good Jews we decorate carefully. That said, if you invite me for Passover, I'm also the case: I read the texts carefully and believe my word, I truly am interested ... In fact, question tradition, I do not try to be original, I'm not one to make a point of honor to go to bed at 21h 31 December ...
David Reinharc / Stéphane Encel: Are you still both in your collaboration with Lawrence Ruquier?
Gerard Miller: I admire in Ruquier, who is my friend, its ability to support me for ten years! How much pressure to fire me he did not resist, besides ... However, I have always been at odds in its broadcasts. I often find myself with columnists that I would not have chosen or guests that I did not want to meet, let alone in matters that do not inspire me, but it is a mood: I do not detail and, overall, I'm having fun, that's not bad. I never considered the function of a columnist as a profession: so, even to the TV as well do it with joy and gaiety. I much prefer to find myself on a plateau with clowns instead of the academic authorities.
David Reinharc / Stéphane Encel: What are your plans?
Gerard Miller: To persevere in my being. Regarding the media, another year, probably to France 2, La Vie at Europe 1 - but nothing is signed and therefore anything can stop. It's a surprise every day to be still in radio as public, with few ideas as the majority! Maybe this a vanity on my part, but I feel deeply minority: on TV, of course, but also good in society ... in the Jewish community.
GM I have long campaigned with him in the revolutionary organization that was created after May 68: I think its course both highly respected and deeply funny. Since I do not think people change at all in all - that's my Freudian side - it amuses me a lot of thinking we were headed for years, and for actions as leftists than we have conducted by a rabbi ...!
David Reinharc / Stéphane Encel Get a distinction between religion and tradition?
Gerard Miller: I think the weight of history, I believe in the past I feel every moment of my putting in the footsteps of my father, my mother, who preceded them. Without ever find myself so far into religion, I have always been sensitive to tradition. But not only to the Jewish tradition! As I live in France, well, for example, I celebrate Christmas every year my children have always received gifts for the occasion, at home, three weeks before the fateful date, there is a beautiful tree, that 'in good Jews we decorate carefully. That said, if you invite me for Passover, I'm also the case: I read the texts carefully and believe my word, I truly am interested ... In fact, question tradition, I do not try to be original, I'm not one to make a point of honor to go to bed at 21h 31 December ...
David Reinharc / Stéphane Encel: Are you still both in your collaboration with Lawrence Ruquier?
Gerard Miller: I admire in Ruquier, who is my friend, its ability to support me for ten years! How much pressure to fire me he did not resist, besides ... However, I have always been at odds in its broadcasts. I often find myself with columnists that I would not have chosen or guests that I did not want to meet, let alone in matters that do not inspire me, but it is a mood: I do not detail and, overall, I'm having fun, that's not bad. I never considered the function of a columnist as a profession: so, even to the TV as well do it with joy and gaiety. I much prefer to find myself on a plateau with clowns instead of the academic authorities.
David Reinharc / Stéphane Encel: What are your plans?
Gerard Miller: To persevere in my being. Regarding the media, another year, probably to France 2, La Vie at Europe 1 - but nothing is signed and therefore anything can stop. It's a surprise every day to be still in radio as public, with few ideas as the majority! Maybe this a vanity on my part, but I feel deeply minority: on TV, of course, but also good in society ... in the Jewish community.
