Fondo P31 - Letters to Ignacio Matte Blanco

Área de identidad

Código de referencia

GB BPASA P31

Título

Letters to Ignacio Matte Blanco

Fecha(s)

  • c.1939-c.1956; two items undated (Creación)

Nivel de descripción

Fondo

Volumen y soporte

1 file; 6 items

Área de contexto

Nombre del productor

(1908-10-03--1995-01-11)

Historia biográfica

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.

Área de contenido y estructura

Alcance y contenido

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.

Acumulaciones

No further accruals are expected.

Sistema de arreglo

The letters are arranged alphabetically, by author.

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Condiciones de acceso

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Idioma del material

  • inglés

Escritura del material

  • latín

Notas sobre las lenguas y escrituras

Características físicas y requisitos técnicos

Instrumentos de descripción

The collection catalogue is published online

Área de materiales relacionados

Existencia y localización de originales

Existencia y localización de copias

Unidades de descripción relacionadas

The Wellcome Library holds a small amount of correspondence between Matte-Blanco and John Bowlby, 1966-1970 (ref. PP/BOW/J.9/26).

Descripciones relacionadas

Nota de publicación

No known publications based on this material.

Área de notas

Identificador/es alternativo(os)

Previous catalogue reference code/s, no longer in use

CMB/F07

Puntos de acceso por materia

Puntos de acceso por lugar

Puntos de acceso por autoridad

Tipo de puntos de acceso

Idioma(s)

  • inglés

Escritura(s)

  • latín

Fuentes

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.

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