Incontrovertible Repercussions of the Primitive or the Natural Force: On Kafka's "A Country Doctor"
Journal
東吳外語學報
Journal Issue
22
Pages
153-166
Date Issued
2006
Author(s)
Abstract
In the story ”A Country Doctor”, Kafka describes a strange, traumatic condition. Many interpreters have tried to analyze this story by means of psychoanalytic methods. This research, however, will not but consider the psychoanalytic perception, but also apply Horkheimer's, Adorno's and Butler's philosophical theories in order to manifest how the protagonist of this story understands his own existence, how he tries to explain the strange, primitive, or natural things that he-as a rationally thinking doctor-has to fight, why he will be overcome by mysterious powers, and why he finally loses control over his own self. Kafka, Horkheimer, Adorno and Butler are uniquely convinced that the biased rational mind of the contemporary system is indeed destructive. The more one identifies oneself with it, the more seriously one gets affected. Sometime the mysterious power will revenge itself.
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journal article