By Daryl Sharp
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If through the intermediation of my wife I could be like that in the presence of everyone! But then would it not be at the expense of my writing? Not that, not that! 7. Alone, I could perhaps some day really give up my job. Married, it will never be possible. (D1 292-293) This list reveals much about Kafka: his pervasive ambivalence, his attitude towards sex (fearful), and his paramount concern for his writing, among others. These aspects are referred to later; here I want only to point out the disparity between his ego-ideal in favour of marriage and his apparent feelings about it.
Teleologically, in terms of what Jung has called the individuation process, the conscious awareness of conflict is an opportunity to grow up, to heal the ego-shadow split. Life always involves the collision between conflicting obligations. The realization and acceptance of conflict as the unavoidable fabric of life is, paradoxically, the only escape from the cross. For Kafka as for anyone else "fettered" between Christ-like ideals and the inescapable facts of physical existence, the solution necessarily involves humility, the acknowledgement of ego limitations.
These questions invariably prove disconcerting to the analysand, for if he knew what he wanted he would have no conflict. Indeed, consciously he wants both, the penny and the cake. From a psychological point of view they are useful questions, for the first, with the accent on "you," constellates the individual ego position (as opposed to what others might want); and the second, stressing "want," constellates the feeling function (judgement, evaluation39). Some conflicts may be resolved in this way without further ado, that is, when the ego position coincides with, or accepts, the feeling attitude.
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