TY - JOUR
TI - Shame in The Trial: Franz Kafka, critic of psychoanalysis
AU - Racine, Julie
TI - Shame in The Trial: Franz Kafka, critic of psychoanalysis
AB - This paper aims to demystify the way in which the mechanics of the Kafka Trial reproduces the Freudian topography of id, ego and superego, within which shame acts as a warning signal, as well as to highlight the hostile representation of psychoanalysis in The Trial. Thus, in an allegorical form, justice, through its representatives, would personify the inquisitive gaze of the analyst, whose theory resembles a law he himself enacted. It is also a question of how this criticism of psychoanalysis could emerge from the study of Talmudic writings undertaken by Kafka around 1911, impregnating in the author a conception of the law and its transgression incompatible with the Freudian doctrine.
VL - 2017
IS - Numéro 11 Acédie / Honte, malaise, inquiétude, ressentiment
PY - 2017
SN - 2300-4681
C1 - 2353-8953
SP - 47
EP - 64
DO - 10.4467/23538953CE.17.003.6897
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/cahiers-erta/article/la-honte-dans-le-proces-franz-kafka-critique-de-la-psychanalyse
KW - Kafka
KW - The Trial
KW - Freud
KW - psychoanalysis
KW - law
KW - Talmud