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Marguerite Derrida, née Aucouturier, (7 July 1932 – 21 March 2020) was a French psychoanalyst and was the wife of philosopher Jacques Derrida from 1957 until his death in 2004.
Derrida was the sister of Michel Aucouturier, one of Derrida's friends at the l'École normale supérieure. She met her husband in 1953 in a village in Haute-Savoie. They married on 9 June 1957 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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.
Death
Derrida died in Paris on Saturday, March 21, 2020, from a COVID-19 infection.
References
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