KAFKA'S “METAMORPHOSIS” APPROACHED VIA AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE
KAFKA'S “METAMORPHOSIS” APPROACHED VIA AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE

Summary/Abstract: The paper expands upon Kafka's “Metamorphosis” as the extreme representation of alienation neurosis caused by “the arbitrary character of the infinite and by existential absurdity” (Chira, 183). From a methodological point of view, we will turn to good account the concept of “time's thermodynamical arrowˮ which reveals “the sense of time where disorder or entropy increases” (Hawking, 113). In order to properly approach the individual disorder and the mental and spiritual dislocation of Kafka's character, Jung's psychoanalytical theory, Bachelard's aesthetics and Chira's interdisciplinary studies will be also taken into account and closely observed in our analysis of the dramatic effects of the extreme form of alienation described in “Metamorphosis”.

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