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Howard Slater March 12, 2025March 27, 2025 0 Comments Franz Kafka, Literary Criticism, Psychoanalysis

Outside the Castle / Inside the Unconscious

This text explores the enigmas and quirks of Kafka’s unfinished novel, The Castle. It is striking how this novel manages to meld together an endangering desire for knowledge with a depiction of the arcane workings of an institution. However, the key here, and its opening towards a new politics, is how it brings unconscious motivations and unquestioned servitude to the fore.

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Howard Slater March 10, 2025March 27, 2025 0 Comments Communism, Franz Kafka, Literary Criticism

“… I MAY PERHAPS BE PERMITTED TO SAY…”

Even as far back as the late 90s an aura of spirituality and/or neurotic existentialism still
clung to the writings of Kafka. Re-reading his short stories at this time revealed an author
acutely sensitive to the psycho-social dynamics of power and resistance as these are
encountered in an everyday life not solely restricted to the world of work and bureaucratic
institutions. This version includes three appendices that have never appeared on line.

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