This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Marguerite Derrida, a prominent French psychoanalyst and translator of important works in her field, died on March 21 in Paris. Ms. Derrida’s son Pierre Alferi said the cause was the coronavirus. Ms. Derrida, who was the wife of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, trained at the Psychoanalytic Society of Paris and worked as a clinician, but she was also known for translations into French, including that of books by Melanie Klein, the Austrian-British psychoanalyst who specialized in children. The Institute of Advanced Studies in Psychoanalysis, which is based near Paris and publishes essays and organizes seminars in the field, said last month in its newsletter that with Ms. Derrida’s death, “a whole world is leaving.”

Source: International New York Times April 06, 2020 18:56 UTC