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French psychoanalyst and translator
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7 July 1932(Prague, Czech Republic)
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21 March 2020(Paris, France)
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Biography
Introduction
Marguerite Derrida (née Aucouturier, 7 July 1932 – 21 March 2020) was a Czech-born French psychoanalyst. She translated many psychoanalytic works into French.
Biography
Derrida trained as a psychologist at the Paris Psychoanalytic Society, and translated many works by Melanie Klein. She trained in anthropology with André Leroi-Gourhan in the 1960s.
Personal life
The daughter of Gustave Aucouturier, Marguerite married Jacques Derrida on 9 June 1957 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. One of their sons is writer Pierre Alféri. She appeared in two documentary films where she talks about life with her husband in Ris-Orangis.
Marguerite died in Paris on Saturday, March 21, from a COVID-19 infection.
Translations
- 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, 1957
- Roman Jakobson, La génération qui a gaspillé ses poètes, Paris, Allia, 2001.
- Maxim Gorki, Vie de Klim Samguine, 1961
- Vladimir Propp, Morphologie du conte