Área de identidad
Código de referencia
Título
Fecha(s)
- c.1939-c.1956; two items undated (Creación)
Nivel de descripción
Volumen y soporte
1 file; 6 items
Área de contexto
Nombre del productor
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.
Institución archivística
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.
Área de condiciones de acceso y uso
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).
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
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.