It was an enormous pleasure to read Karen Kilby’s excellent review of Tina Beattie’s book, Theology after Postmodernity (Books, 29 March). It is a great breakthrough that, finally, a theologian of Professor Beattie’s standing is thinking and writing about theology in relation to psychoanalysis and Freud. I am intrigued by the fact that she is relating the works of Thomas Aquinas to the work of Jacques Lacan, using the very complex postmodernist systems of Lacan, in order to make sense of the equally complex scholastic systems of Aquinas. Lacan’s early background of Catholicism gives him a vocabulary and maybe a way of speech, which may seem to connect to Catholics. Although he was an atheist, it is not really strange to use Lacan’s work in this way, any more