Marguerite Aucouturier

Marguerite Derrida (née Aucouturier; 7 July 1932 – 21 March 2020) was a Czech-born French psychoanalyst.[1] She translated many psychoanalytic works into French.

Marguerite Aucouturier
Born(1932-07-07)7 July 1932
Died21 March 2020(2020-03-21) (aged 87)
Resting placeRis-Orangis
Occupation(s)Psychoanalyst
Translator
SpouseJacques Derrida
ChildrenPierre Alféri

Biography

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Aucouturier trained as a psychologist at the Paris Psychoanalytic Society,[2] and translated many works by Melanie Klein. She trained in anthropology with André Leroi-Gourhan in the 1960s.[3]

Personal life

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Aucutourier was born in Prague on 7 July 1932 to Gustave Aucouturier, a French journalist, and Marie Alferi, a Czech.[4] She married Jacques Derrida on 9 June 1957 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[5] Together they had three children. One of their sons is writer Pierre Alféri.[6] She appeared in two documentary films where she talks about life with her husband in Ris-Orangis.[7][8][9][10]

Marguerite Derrida died in Paris on Saturday 21 March 2020 from a COVID-19 infection at the age of 87.[11][12]

Translations into French by Marguerite Aucouturier

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  • 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

Bibliography

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  • Benoît Peeters, Benoît (2010). Derrida (in French). Flammarion. ISBN 9782081214071.
  • Benoît Peeters, Trois ans avec Derrida. Les carnets d'un biographe, Paris, Flammarion, 2010, 248 pp.
  • (in English) David Mikics, Who Was Jacques Derrida? An Intellectual Biography, 2009, New Haven, Yale University Press, 288 pp., ISBN 9780300115420

References

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  1. ^ "Mort de la psychanalyste et traductrice Marguerite Derrida". Libération (in French). 23 March 2020. Archived from the original on 23 March 2020. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  2. ^ Rapaport, Herman (1994). Between the Sign & the Gaze. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801481338.
  3. ^ Bougnoux, Daniel; Stiegler, Bernard (2014). Pour Jacques Derrida (in French). Bry-sur-Marne: INA.
  4. ^ Breeden, Aurelien (6 April 2020). "Marguerite Derrida, French Psychoanalyst and Translator, Dies at 87". The New York Times. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
  5. ^ Peeters, Benoit (2013). Derrida: A Biography. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons.
  6. ^ "Biographie de Jacques Derrida (1930-2004)". Idixa (in French).
  7. ^ "Jacques Derrida, Abstruse Theorist, Dies at 74". New York Times. 10 October 2004.
  8. ^ "Jacques Derrida, le courage de la pensée". Morgane (in French). Archived from the original on 2016-09-11. Retrieved 2020-03-24.
  9. ^ "Derrida (2002)". IMDb.
  10. ^ "Jacques Derrida, le courage de la pensée (2014)". IMDb.
  11. ^ "Psychoanalyst Marguerite Derrida, wife of Jacques Derrida dies of coronavirus". 26 March 2020. Archived from the original on 26 March 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
  12. ^ "La mort de la psychanalyste Marguerite Derrida" (in French). Le Monde. 25 March 2020.