ABSTRACT
Psychoanalytic studies of Kafka are not rare. Kafka's novels comprise a fictional equivalent of the infancy period in the human's sexual development, as outlined by psychoanalysis. It is likely that Kafka's works are more autobiographical than the works of artists whose output is less intense and less cathartic. For daemonic artists like Kafka, art is compulsive, a direct release of inner stresses which threaten to overwhelm them. Kafka's short and fragmentary autobiographical sketch is an affective verbalization of his castration fears. A number of critics have denied that Kafka is an expressionist, mainly because he was not an active member of the German expressionist movement. They have confused the provincial term as applied to that movement with the more universal term too seldom used to denote the whole modern movement. Kafka is full of the infantile, incongruous and exaggerated. In his novels adults are children playing at reason and maturity, at cross purposes with themselves.
