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MATTE BLANCO AND THE LOGIC OF THE UNCONSCIOUS 
Saturday 8 November 2008  9.30am -  5.00pm 
Anna Freud Centre, 12 Maresfield Gardens, London NW3 
Ignacio Matte Blanco is not a name that is heard often within the analytic community, but we believe that the work of this Chilean psychoanalyst will become increasingly significant in the coming years. 

He is among the small group of analysts such as Klein, Bion or Lacan who have developed Freud’s ideas in such an original way that they not only change the way we think about the inner world, but professionals from other disciplines are drawn to their ideas. 

 Matte Blanco’s theories of unconscious logic and the dynamic interplay of thought and emotion offer new insights into mental functioning, linking earlier schools of thought with the most important current trends in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy: neuro-psychoanalysis, mentalisation theory and cognitive behavioural therapy amongst others. 

We warmly invite both those in the ‘talking-cure’ community and those from other professions to the conference so that they get a sense of how a few simple but astonishingly fertile ideas from Matte Blanco can enrich their daily work and thought. 
Programme 
Saturday 8 November 2008 
MORNING 

Richard Carvalho 
(Analytical Psychologist) 
Matte Blanco and the multidimensional realm 
of the unconscious 

Alessandra Ginzburg 
(Psychoanalyst - Rome) 
Passion and similarity: The clinical application of Matte Blanco’s ideas 

Maxine Sacks 
(Clinical Psychologist) 
CBT and the unconscious: putting the puzzle together 

AFTERNOON 

Paulina Reyes 
(Psychotherapist) 
Klein, Bion and Matte Blanco: 
A bi-logic outlook on development 

Kalu Singh 
(Counsellor and writer) 
Tooth is Beauty: Bi-Logic and Literary Criticism 

Rev. Rodney Bomford 
(Theologian and Priest) 
The Question of God: Symmetric Logic and 
The Trinity 

Chairs
Sylvia O’Neill (Psychotherapist) 
Gerald Wooster (Psychoanalyst) 


 
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