Analysis Of The Judgement By Franz Kafka

Freud is often considered the father of psychology so it’s not unusual that Kafka, a writer just a few years younger than Freud, would be influenced by his findings. Further in journal entries by Kafka, Freud is mentioned several times. Due to this we can deduce that Freudian psychology influenced Kafka’s writing. In “The Judgement by Franz Kafka the father character represents the superego, a freudian concept outlined in Civilization and its Discontent by Sigmund Freud furthermore the father in Kafka’s work shows aspects of Adler's theory of compensation, resignation and over-compensation.
The superego is responsible for “harsh aggressiveness against the ego that the ego would have liked to enjoy against others.” This means that the superego …show more content…
This is one of the final blows to Georg because it is his father saying Georg’s own subconscious fears. Freida is someone he is clearly invested in considering that he was willing to tell his friend in Russia who he fears is far too fragile simply at Frieda’s request. He is excited by the prospect of his friend meeting her which outway the neurosis he feels for his friends mental health because he is dependent on her for support. It is very clear that Georg has daddy issues, not unlike Kafka’s own life, and he speaks of how much of a loss his mother was for him. So in some sense he is replacing his mother with Frieda, which makes it as though he’s threatening to take away the only 2 people what we know Georg cares about therefore causing him to become …show more content…
However the two did part ways as Freud focused on the more risque part of the psychodynamic perspective which is the sex. In this case we will be using his individual psychological ideas which is compensation, essentially the idea of making yourself live a better life; resignation, when one just accepts a poor lifestyle and does nothing to change it; and over-compensation, or humoring oneself by living outside of their means. While the Father mostly demonstrates resignation and over-compensation but that is because those are extremes that the superego goes to, however, the ego usually cancels it out with rationality and causes us to act with simple compensation. However, as we have established that the father represents the superego it is not unusual that he represents the two polar of the