Jenny Aubry

Jenny Aubry (8 October 1903 – 21 January 1987) was a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.

Jenny Aubry
Born	Jenny Weiss 8 October 1903 Paris, France
Died	28 January 1987 (at 83 years old) Paris, France
Nationality	French
Children	Élisabeth Roudinesco
Family	Louise Weiss (sister) Louis Émile Javal (grandfather)

Life and career

Born in to the Parisian middle-class elite, and a 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.[7]

See also

• D. W. Winnicott
• Francoise Dolto
• Maud Mannoni

Publications

• Jenny, Aubry; Élisabeth, Roudinesco (2010). Psychanalyse des enfants séparés : études cliniques (1952-1986). Paris: Flammarion. ISBN 2-207-25480-1.*
• 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. Roudinesco, Elisabeth. Philosophy in Turbulent Times: Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, Derrida. Columbia University Press. p. 125. ISBN 978-0-231-51885-7.