Marie Jenny Emilie Aubry (née Weiss; 8 October 1903 – 21 January 1987) was a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
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
Louis Émile Javal (5 May 1839 – 20 January 1907) was a French ophthalmologist born in Paris. Javal is remembered for his studies of physiological optics and his work involving a disorder known as strabismus.
Early life
He was born in Par ...
. She was the sister of the famous suffragette
Louise Weiss
Louise Weiss (25 January 1893 – 26 May 1983) was a French author, journalist, feminist, and European Union, European politician. She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971 Nobel Peace Prize, 1971 and for the Nobel Prize in Literatur ...
. Aubry was among the first female doctors to qualify in France. Having worked with the
Resistance during the war, she discovered
psychoanalysis
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through
Anna Freud
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in 1948, and trained as a psychoanalyst under the supervision of
Jacques Lacan
Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (, ; ; 13 April 1901 – 9 September 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Described as "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Sigmund Freud, Freud", Lacan gave The Seminars of Jacques Lacan, year ...
, 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
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and
John Bowlby
Edward John Mostyn Bowlby (; 26 February 1907 – 2 September 1990) was a British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, notable for his interest in child development and for his pioneering work in attachment theory. A ''Review of General Psychology'' ...
, Aubry began to specialise in the treatment of institutionalised children, exploring the role of maternal deprivation in their symptomatology. Her book ''Enfance Abandonée'' was published in 1953, and her collected papers in 2003.
Family
Jenny Aubry was the mother of
Élisabeth Roudinesco
Élisabeth Roudinesco (; born 10 September 1944) is a French scholar, historian and psychoanalyst. She conducts a seminar on the history of psychoanalysis at the École Normale Supérieure.
Roudinesco's work focuses mainly on psychiatry, psycholo ...
. Through her mother she was the niece of
Alice Anna Weiller (née Javal) and the cousin of
Paul-Louis Weiller
Paul-Louis Weiller (September 29, 1893, Paris - December 6, 1993, Geneva) was a French industrialist and philanthropist.
Biography
From a Jewish Alsatian family, Weiller was the son of the industrialist and politician Lazare Weiller (1858–192 ...
, the son of Alice and
Lazare Weiller
Lazare Weiller (20 July 1858 – 12 August 1928) was a French engineer, industrialist, and politician. He was born in Alsace and received a technical education in England and in his cousin's copper factory in Angoulême. He was very interested in ...
.
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See also
References
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1903 births
1987 deaths
French psychiatrists
French psychoanalysts
Place of birth missing
20th-century French physicians
French women psychiatrists
20th-century French women physicians
20th-century French women
20th-century French psychologists