Marguerite Aucouturier

Marguerite Derrida, née Aucouturier, is a French psychoanalyst and was the wife of philosopher Jacques Derrida from 1957 until his death in 2004.

Derrida is the sister of Michel Aucouturier, one of Jacques Derrida's friends at the l'École normale supérieure. She met her future husband in 1953 in a village in Haute-Savoie. They married on 9 June 1957 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[1]

Her family came from a Slavic-speaking background and she has translated several books by Melanie Klein in addition to Morphology of the Folktale by Vladimir Propp.

References

  1. ↑ Peeters, Benoit (2013). "5, A Year in America". Derrida: A Biography. John Wiley & Sons.
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