Jenny Aubry
Marie Jenny Emilie Aubry (née Weiss; 8 October 1903 – 21 January 1987) was a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
Jenny Aubry | |
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| Born | Marie Jenny Emilie Weiss 8 October 1903 Paris, France |
| Died | 28 January 1987 (at 83 years old) Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Spouse(s) | Alexandre Roudinesco Pierre Aubry |
| Children | Élisabeth Roudinesco |
| Parent(s) | Paul Louis Weiss Jeanne Félicie Javal |
| Family | Louise Weiss (sister) Paul-Louis Weiller (cousin) Alice Weiller (aunt) Louis Émile Javal (grandfather) Lazare Weiller (uncle-by-marriage) |
Life and career
Born in to the Parisian middle-class elite, to Paul Louis Weiss (1867-1945) and Jeanne Félicie Weiss (née Javal; 1871-1956), the daughter of Louis Émile Javal. She was the sister of the famous suffragette Louise Weiss.[1] Aubry was among the first female doctors to qualify in France.[2] Having worked with the Resistance during the war, she discovered psychoanalysis through Anna Freud in 1948, and trained as a psychoanalyst under the supervision of Jacques Lacan,[3] with whom she developed a friendship and whom she followed through the various splits of the French psychoanalytic movement.
Aware too of the work of such figures as René Spitz and John Bowlby,[4] Aubry began to specialise in the treatment of institutionalised children, exploring the role of maternal deprivation in their symptomatology.[5] Her book Enfance Abandonée was published in 1953, and her collected papers in 2003.[6]
Family
Jenny Aubry was the mother of Élisabeth Roudinesco. Through her mother she was the niece of Alice Anna Weiller (née Javal) and the cousin of Paul-Louis Weiller, the son of Alice and Lazare Weiller.[7][8]
See also
Publications
References
- E. Roudinesco, Jacques Lacan (2005) p. 240-1
- Jenny Aubry
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- L. D. Kritzman et al eds., The Columbia Dictionary of Twentieth-Century French Thought (2007) p. 507-8
- P. Gherovici, Please Select Your Gender (2011) p. 104
- Jenny Aubry née Weiss
- "Jenny Aubry". geni_family_tree. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
- Roudinesco, Elisabeth (19 November 2008). Philosophy in Turbulent Times: Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, Derrida. Columbia University Press. p. 125. ISBN 978-0-231-51885-7.