Marguerite Derrida

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

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.

• 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