3. • In “The Metamorphosis”, Kafka tells us the story of a
man who wakes up in the body like a big beetle.
• His family rejects him, and his main enemy is his
father, who wants to kill him. His father acts as an
impetuous and despotic figure.
• He only finds his sister’s help.
• His mother just pays attention in her husband. If we
have a look at Kafka’s biography, we find that his
father was too dominant for him and traumatized his
childhood.
• He felt like an “insect” before his father.

4.  is a short story written by Franz Kafka in 1912. It is
about the relationship between a man and his father,
in which the elderly father ultimately condemns his
son to death by drowning.

5.  “Dearest father” with these words Kafka begins his letter.
Pages of profound sorrow regarding a
difficult relationship that kept taking turns for the worse; a
man, confronted
with the paternal figure, with a threatening shadow and
darkness that he had always known in his life.
 father, inaccessible, far away
and hostile who never made him feel loved. And, finally, he
is left deprived of
hope in his painful attempt to find tranquility
in living and dying , his dying demand for an untroubled
spirit, his cry for help.

8.  The first repressed desire of an individual is known as
the “Oedipus Complex”. His libido is first focused on
his mouth, then on the anus, and finally on the
genitals. His mother is his first sexual desire (she
touches him, takes care of him, etc). His father is his
enemy. However, when he grows up, he finds that law
and morality don’t permit him to satisfy his desires, so
they go to the unconscious, and the individual forgets
it. Like this, the individual EGO is balanced between
ID and SUPER-EGO (desires pressure and social
pressure).

9.  Socially unacceptable impulses or idealizations are
consciously transformed into socially acceptable
actions or behavior, possibly converting the initial
impulse in the long term.