ABSTRACT
Chapter 1, ‘Why Kristeva?’, describes the context in which ideas about growth and change in psychoanalysis and in theology have developed. It focusses on Melanie Klein, the child psychoanalyst who wrote between the 1920s and the 1960s, and Julia Kristeva, the main theorist used in this book, who was greatly influenced by Klein. It looks at some parallel changes in psychoanalytic and theological thinking in the post-modern era and at the changes in psychoanalytic attitudes to religion over the second half of the twentieth century and in the twenty-first century.
