ABSTRACT
Julia Kristeva is a very well-known and fecund writer. She is a psychoanalyst and writes about psychoanalysis, but she is knowledgeable and interested in what one could call all human sciences including philosophy (her main interest I think being in semiology), literature, art and sociology. One could put it that she is interested in the human mind in all its manifestations. One of her particular interests is psychoanalysis in relation to culture – both the culture in which psychoanalysis grows and by which it is inspired, and conversely, the impact psychoanalysis has made on the culture of the 19th and 20th centuries (and the role of women in this process).
