Marguerite Derrida (née Aucouturier; 7 July 1932 – 21 March 2020) was a Czech-born French psychoanalyst. She translated many psychoanalytic works into

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Biography

Aucouturier trained as a psychologist at the

Paris Psychoanalytic Society The Paris Psychoanalytical Society (SPP) is the oldest psychoanalytical organisation in France. Founded with Freud’s endorsement in 1926, the S.P.P. is a component member of the International Psychoanalytical Association (I.P.A.) as well as of t ...

, and translated many works by Melanie Klein. She trained in anthropology with

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in the 1960s.

Personal life

Aucutourier was born in

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on 7 July 1932 to Gustave Aucouturier, a French journalist, and Marie Alferi, a Czech. She married

Jacques Derrida Jacques Derrida (; ; born Jackie Élie Derrida; See also . 15 July 1930 – 9 October 2004) was an Algerian-born French philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he utilized in numerous texts, and which was developed t ...

on 9 June 1957 in

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. One of their sons is writer

Pierre Alféri Pierre Alféri (; born 1963) is a French novelist, poet, and essayist. Alféri is the son of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida and psychoanalyst Marguerite Aucouturier. Career After his dissertation on William of Ockham, Alféri began to p ...

. She appeared in two documentary films where she talks about life with her husband in

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. Marguerite Derrida died in Paris on Saturday 21 March 2020 from a

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infection.

Translations into French by Marguerite Aucouturier

* Melanie Klein : ** ''Essais de psychanalyse. 1921–1945'', Payot, 1984. ** ''Deuil et dépression'', Payot et Rivages, 2004 ** ''Psychanalyse d'enfants'', Payot et Rivages, 2005 ** ''Le complexe d'Œdipe'', Payot et Rivages, 2006 ** ''Sur l'enfant'', Payot et Rivages, 2012 * Iouri Ianovski, ''Les Cavaliers'', Paris, Éditions Gallimard, trans. in collaboration with P. Zankiévitch and Elyane Jacquet, reviewed and presented by

Louis Aragon Louis Aragon (, , 3 October 1897 – 24 December 1982) was a French poet who was one of the leading voices of the surrealist movement in France. He co-founded with André Breton and Philippe Soupault the surrealist review ''Littérature''. He wa ...

, 1957 * Roman Jakobson, ''La génération qui a gaspillé ses poètes'', Paris, Allia, 2001. * Maxim Gorki, ''Vie de Klim Samguine'', 1961 *

Vladimir Propp Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp (russian: Владимир Яковлевич Пропп; – 22 August 1970) was a Soviet folklorist and scholar who analysed the basic structural elements of Russian folk tales to identify their simplest irredu ...

, ''Morphologie du conte''

Bibliography

* * Benoît Peeters, ''Trois ans avec Derrida. Les carnets d'un biographe'', Paris, Flammarion, 2010, 248 pp. * David Mikics, ''Who Was Jacques Derrida? An Intellectual Biography'', 2009, New Haven, Yale University Press, 288 pp.,

References

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