| Jenny Aubry | |
| Birth Name: | Marie Jenny Emilie Weiss |
| Birth Date: | 8 October 1903 |
| Birth Place: | Paris, France |
| Death Date: | 21 January 1987 (aged 83) |
| Death Place: | Paris, France |
| Nationality: | French |
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| Children: | Élisabeth Roudinesco |
| Family: | Louise Weiss (sister) Paul-Louis Weiller (cousin) Alice Weiller (aunt) Louis Émile Javal (grandfather) Lazare Weiller (uncle-by-marriage) |
Marie Jenny Emilie Aubry (née Weiss; 8 October 1903 – 21 January 1987) was a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
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]
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]