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Title
Date(s)
- c.1939-c.1956; two items undated (Creation)
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Extent and medium
1 file; 6 items
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Ignacio Matte Blanco was a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, noted for his work on logic and the unconscious.
He was born in Santiago on 3 Oct 1908 and trained as a psychoanalyst in Chile and England, becoming a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society in 1938. He moved to study in the USA two years later and became Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Duke University. He returned to Chile in 1944, where he was instrumental in establishing the Chilean Psychoanalytic Association and was appointed as Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Psychiatric Clinic at the medical school of the University of Chile.
In 1966, he moved to Rome, Italy, where he continued to practice psychoanalysis and psychotherapy until his death on 11 Jan 1995.
Repository
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Photocopies of six letters received by Matte Blanco commenting on his psychoanalytic work. The collection comprises one letter from each of the following people: Wilfred Bion, Sigmund Freud, Ernest Jones, Melanie Klein, Bertrand Russell and Walter Schmideberg.
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No further accruals are expected.
System of arrangement
The letters are arranged alphabetically, by author.
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Language of material
- English
Script of material
- Latin
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Finding aids
The collection catalogue is published online
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Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
The Wellcome Library holds a small amount of correspondence between Matte-Blanco and John Bowlby, 1966-1970 (ref. PP/BOW/J.9/26).
Publication note
No known publications based on this material.
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Previous catalogue reference code/s, no longer in use
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Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
- Latin
Sources
Jordan-Moore, J.F. (1995). Obituary: Ignacio Matte Blanco 1908-1995. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 76:1035-1041.
Infante, J.A. and Procci, W.R. (2000). Clinical And Theoretical Uses Of Bi-Logic. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 81:571-574.