Marguerite Aucouturier

Marguerite Derrida was a Czech-born French psychoanalyst. She translated many psychoanalytic works into French.

Biography

Aucouturier 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.

Aucutourier was born in Prague on 7 July 1932 to Gustave Aucouturier, a French journalist, and Marie Alferi, a Czech. She married Jacques Derrida on 9 June 1957 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Together they had three children. 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 Derrida died in Paris on Saturday 21 March 2020 from a COVID-19 infection at the age of 87.

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''