Marguerite Derrida
Marguerite Derrida (born July 7, 1932 in Prague as Marguerite Aucouturier ; † March 21, 2020 in Paris ) was a French psychoanalyst and translator . She was the wife of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida .
Life
Marguerite Derrida was the daughter of the French journalist Gustave Aucouturier and the Czech Marie Alferi. Her brother was the author and translator Michel Aucouturier. She trained as a psychoanalyst at the Société psychanalytique de Paris .
She translated several works by Melanie Klein , Roman Jakobson and Maxim Gorki into French.
Derrida married the French philosopher Jacques Derrida in Cambridge in 1957 . They had two sons, one of whom is the writer Pierre Alféri . On March 21, 2020, she died at the age of 87 during the COVID-19 pandemic in a Paris old people's home of the consequences of a SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Web links
- Marguerite Derrida in the Internet Movie Database (English)
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| SURNAME | Derrida, Marguerite |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Aucouturier, Marguerite (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French psychoanalyst and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 7, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 21, 2020 |
| Place of death | Paris |