RE: ADSactly Literature - The Feelings of a Son in Franz Kafka's Letter to the Father
In this letter, he says that he is like a prisoner who intends to go away, which might be achievable, one could add by writing, that is, by ceasing want to be the equal of the father on the same ground as him, but at the same time, he has the project to turn the prison into a castle for his use, this project of transformation from prison to castle being his desire to marry, to succeed like his father the project of this greatest act, but it is not possible, because he can not be there in close relation with his father, on his most personal domain! If he really plans to escape, he can not undertake the transformation of the prison into a castle, and if he really wants to undertake this transformation, he can not escape, but Franz Kafka will never choose, he will always want two things contradictory.
That's right, my dear friend! One of Kafka's most genuine feelings was his contradiction: on the one hand his rejection of the father and on the other his praise. In the same letter we observe how at times he speaks of the greatness and perfection of the father, and how he can never be like the father. That confused, imprecise attitude, perhaps normal in any child with respect to the father, is the one that many have used to make psychoanalytic studies from the figure of Oedipus. Thank you for commenting, @kouba01