Marguerite Aucouturier


Marguerite Derrida 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

Marguerite was born in Prague on July 7, 1932 to Gustave Aucouturier, a French journalist, and Marie Alferi, a Czech. She 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.
Derrida died in Paris on Saturday, March 21, 2020, from a COVID-19 infection.

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