"i Write All About You" - Jungian Psychology As The Threshold Of Kafka And Creative

Relationship between father and son, an ancient and everlasting aspect in people's life, is treated in many literary works, ancient or modern, Chinese or abroad. Those works usually cover themes with regard to antithesis. We dare say that conflict between father and son runs through the river of history. It is also a permanent theme of literary works. In the literature of 20th century, the conflict between father and son still plays a very important role. The well-known modernist writer Franz Kafka also depicted the conflict in his works. His life experience, psychological structure, and writing career are deeply influenced by his father. His complicated relationship to his father.as a result of his individual family life and nationality, associated the works closely with his father. In the letter to his father he said that all of his works were related to him. He also told his father that what he expressed was just what he failed to do before him. To him, his father was just like God. Kafka's attitudes to his father were very complicated and contradicted, which was given an excellent presentation in his novels. That caused the images he created were complicated and contradicted too. To him, his father was not only a specific individual but also a concrete carrier of his understanding the world. His father was stern and frightening as well as cordial and kind. Therefore, his attitudes towards his father involved love and respect as well as rebellion and condemnation. Kafka gave a full expression of the complicated and contradicted relationship between his father and himself in his novels. By this way he showed us some truth about history and reality. And at the same time we can see his suffering soul struggling under the powerful patriarchy.This article mainly produces an elaborate analysis of the personal unconscious and collective unconscious of Kafka with aid of Jung's theory in combination of treatment of Kafka's psychology and psychological cause of his writing. The article demonstrates that the conflict between his father and him influenced nearly everything in his life, especially his writing. We can say that it is just the conflict that makes the great writer now we know .All of his works were written on the basis of the conflict.This article can be divided into three parts:Part I: Kafka, as a writer, and his writing dominated by his personal unconscious are discussed according to his life of childhood. And Inferiority/Terror Complex in Kafka's psychological structure are analyzed at the same time. What's more, the causes of the complex are also indicated. Subsequently, we get the conclusion that his father is the cause of such complex.Part II: Kafka and his writing controlled by the collective unconscious are analyzed. According to his nationality, Kafka's Jewish archetypes are mainly demonstrated. It emphasizes Father/God archetype in his novels and how the archetype produced is also explained. In the Jewish culture, father is nearly equal to God. Kafka's idea about God was mainly from his private experience in his family. So father and God were actually the same to him. The conflict between father and son exists commonly in the culture of his nationality. Kafka's works are actually the reflection of the collective unconscious of Jew.Part III: Finally, we explain the source of Father/God Archetype is the old Exiling/Roaming Archetype. Tracing back to the Old Testament, we can see the source of the conflict between Father and son. In fact, the conflict emerged and existed early in the childhood of human being. The first story in the Old Testament tells God's prejudice against human and human's objection against God. Father/God Archetype is present in the collective unconscious throughout all times and all nations. Kafka's feelings of inferiority and terror before his father were just a form of reflection of the collective unconscious. Kafka, as a representative of human being, expressed his feelings in midst of the great power and the world. Thereby his works are carrying a permanent significance...