Jenny Aubry

Marie Jenny Emilie Aubry (née Weiss; 8 October 1903 – 21 January 1987) was a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.

Jenny Aubry
Born
Marie Jenny Emilie Weiss

8 October 1903
Paris, France
Died28 January 1987 (at 83 years old)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Spouses
  • Alexandre Roudinesco
  • Pierre Aubry
ChildrenÉlisabeth Roudinesco
Parent(s)Paul Louis Weiss
Jeanne Félicie Javal
FamilyLouise 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
  • Jenny, Aubry; Élisabeth, Roudinesco (2010). Psychanalyse des enfants séparés : études cliniques (1952-1986). Paris: Flammarion. ISBN 978-2-207-25480-6.*
  • Jenny, Aubry (1983). Enfance abandonnée. La carence de soins maternels. Paris: Scarabee and Cie. ISBN 2-86722-005-X.

References
  1. E. Roudinesco, Jacques Lacan (2005) p. 240-1
  2. Jenny Aubry
  3. Jenny Aubry
  4. L. D. Kritzman et al eds., The Columbia Dictionary of Twentieth-Century French Thought (2007) p. 507-8
  5. P. Gherovici, Please Select Your Gender (2011) p. 104
  6. Jenny Aubry née Weiss
  7. "Jenny Aubry". geni_family_tree. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
  8. 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.
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