Ignacio Matte Blanco

Who was Ignacio Matte Blanco?

Ignacio Matte Blanco was a Chilean psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who developed a rule-based structure for the unconscious which allows us to make sense of the non-logical aspects of thought. 'In applying the complexities and paradoxes of mathematical logic to psychoanalysis, Matte-Blanco has enriched it incredibly...in the clinical situation'.

In particular, 'Matte Blanco shows us that "the part can represent the whole" and that "past, present, and future are all the same"'.