Person
Ignacio Matte Blanco
Chilean psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who trained in London, founded psychoanalytic training in Chile, and from the 1960s worked in Rome. He read the unconscious through logic and mathematics, as a mode of thinking that treats asymmetrical relations as symmetrical and parts as wholes, which he called bi-logic, in The Unconscious as Infinite Sets (1975). As a teacher in Santiago he shaped the first analytic generation there, Otto Kernberg among them.
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- 1954 influenced Otto F. Kernberg
Kernberg trained from 1954 at the Chilean Psychoanalytic Society, founded by Matte Blanco, whose openness to several schools gave him grounding in both ego psychology and Kleinian theory, the two strands his own work would later join.