FRANZ KAFKA AND DADDY ISSUES
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ค. 2024
- Having an existential crisis is not easy. Thoughts of existentialism and nihilism keep tapping you on the shoulder. In this video, we focus on Franz Kafka and his letter to his father and what we can learn from it. You may know Franz Kafka from the whole cockroach thing, but there is a lot to him! And, luckily, we can all learn from his experiences in his childhood home.
Do you have an idea for a topic within the boundaries of the existential crisis? Despair, suicide, alienation, loneliness, etc.? Then drop a comment below and I will do my best to make a video in that vein!
I may get an F on my exam tomorrow but I am glad I watched this.
Great video, I subscribed :) I had some terrible existential issues right around when I started high school. I was very near suicide at one point. I ended up taking various drugs for depression but existentialism has been the most helpful for me. I tend to view the negative aspects of existence as a force pushing me to create meaning these days. At the same time I do still struggle with authenticity and depression daily though. Very grateful for all the people who helped me, Kafka included.
First of all, thank you so much, Sean :)! Our paths seem very similar and that's exactly the point I think is so valuable to reiterate to people; the fact that we are not alone with our struggles. You're doing the best you can and that's admirable, many people are not that far in figuring out who they are. I, too, have my daily doses of suicidal thoughts, but they get easier to manage. Thank you for subscribing and thank you for commenting, I really appreciate it :)!
all the best. I hope you make a good life for yourself.
hey man its been 6yrs update
How do you have so few subs? You're so good at speaking, and you present everything in a very concise manner. I actually grew up similarly where adults in my life were very critical of me and mistakes were not allowed. I've also grown to be a person who does not trust themselves. I work every day to raise my own self to a point where these things are no longer true, or they no longer affect me, as I believe there is no point to continue living if I can not trust myself.
Holy moly! Thank you so much for your kind words! I'm grateful you reacted so positively to this! I believe you are spot on; if you cannot trust yourself, the rest of life seems mundane and bleak. And then there's no reason to carry on. Kafka's situation is very relatable and I'm sorry to hear about your childhood. I wish you all the best and I hope you can reach a point someday where you can trust yourself again. You deserve it.
I'm having the same issue, as I grew up with a father who seems to have never really loved himself and a mother that is so frustratingly controlling, there was little room to develop individual skills and so I never learnt how to take care of myself nor how to love myself. To be very honest I still rely heavily on others to feel good about myself, which is probably the reason I often isolate myself and try to make some sense out of my feelings and how it affects my view on reality.
Things only started to change recently as I picked up photography and made a series about my mum. I'd reflect my own feelings onto her, so she could see how she would make me feel without the need for empathy - self-identification is easier after all. In 2016 my father died from starvation (long story short, he tried to kill himself in 2001, failed, my parents divorced because he was an alcoholic and had huge debts, my mother kept us away from him, hence her need to control her environment, after being lonely and having lived a meaningless existence for 15 years he decided to deal with it but the doctor wouldn't grant him euthanasia so he just decided to do it himself) and it was only after his death that she allowed me to look through our family archive of video and photographs, only to discover that he was quite a happy person that found alot of fulfillment in his family: my mother, me and my brother. Yeah, you can still tell he was damaged, that things sometimes seemed to just slide off of him, but that's not because he didn't enjoy us, he simply wasn't exposed how to have a fulfilling life within his own family, what it means to have purpose so he never really learned how to express content when such emotions arise. I recognize alot of myself in my father and knowing his history was the first step to take life in my own hands. I started working a full time job, just so I can move away from my mother and that will be the first step in my healing process. In the meantime I'm doing crafts, I picked up writing again and I'm learning more and more about gardening, a passion I share with my girlfriend.
There is this wonderful lecture about this by Foucault, called The Culture of The Self. It's on TH-cam and I think it might put certain things into perspective if you're still looking for clues to create meaning and find purpose in your own life. Take care
@@DarkAngelEU I am so happy to read about your development. Hope you will progress even more.
@@staystudious7641 It's funny to get your comment on the day I decide that I have been taking care of myself enough and I should start taking care for others as well. My practice as an artist is going to change from an autobiographical perspective to one that focuses on equal rights within a multicultural society. I will start studying History at uni next year to support my vision so it's very heartwarming to receive your comment on this day, where I have already taken my first steps to become this new artist. Thank you so much
@@DarkAngelEU Woah! That's amazing. You are a wonderful person. I wish you luck.
This has been presented so well. Right choice of music, apt amount of humour and amazing voice modulation!!! You got a new subscriber
If anyone is more interested in this piece of the most humane person: German philosopher Hans Blumenberg wrote an absolutely stunning philosophical (not psychological) interpretation ad a feuilleton, comparing the depicted father to the phenomenon of the absolute in Kafka's works. He is more than a humane father, he is absolute, hence the name "The absolute Father" (ger. Der absolute Vater). I deeply hope there is an English translation tho, because I don't know D:
Reading the letter during Literature class really hit on a specially negative place for me. At age from age 0 to 14 I suffered the exact same as Kafka did, ironically my father had a similar upbringing as that of Kafka's father, rising from poverty to becone a successful man. I was separated from him after a series of alternactions where he literally threatened to kill me (I hope, not literally, but something he would do) and I was so utterly scared for my life that I hid a small knife under my bed. Well he found out, calling me a psychopathic murderer, and gave me away to child services and eventually I ended with my biological mother on a whole different continent.
Loved this, THANK YOU!
Doha Blank thank you so much!
Great video - always looking forward to the next one
Thank you so much for watching! I'll keep it up!
Kafka never actually sent his father the letter as far as I know? therefore it forms a refracting lens solely for Kafka himself perhaps. I suppose some contemporary counsellors might recommend this as a form of therapeutic exercise.
The best biography of Kafka I've come across is Pietro Citati's
Marc Nash True, he never did! He gave it to his mother but she refused to pass it on. I hope it helped him with what he was dealing with.
Thank you for the recommendation! Will look into it tonight and possibly purchase it.
Ah tysm for this video, really helped me
you are awesome.
insightful analysis, thank you and happy to discover your channel :)
One of the best explanations of the letter to his father I've seen. Most critics tend to leave out the whole "describing childhood incidents' part, which is strange because isn't that most of the letter?
First of all, thank you for your kind words. I am really grateful for you taking the time out just to go here. It's appreciated loads.
Secondly, when researching this letter, I, too, was baffled by other critics' discussion of the letter. People tend to call Kafka insecure and worried, but as you say, all of that started with his maltreatment at home. And you're right; most of the letter is descriptions of childhood incidents. The rest are his feelings about the incidents, roughly speaking.
What’s the background music in this video?
Greetings, Simon.
I'm Matheus, a tiny little brazilian person who absolutely loves literature, and on a special kind of way, Kafka as well.
First, I should say that I loved your analysis about existentialism on Kafka. But somehow, I tend to think that you might not have gotten so well some of Kafka's works ideas and its complexity, specially when it takes a personal stamp.
In all kind of ways, everything you just said made sense. But then, in a second look, I can't help but feeling that you actually may be a little rude (on what anything that takes a philosophical look to a deep comprehension), which makes the analysis looks nothing but a cold look of a life leading blindly and unexpectedly to a suffering.
Well, here's the thing: I propose a short and kindly debate/conversation, on private, about Kafka's works (and please remember, this is just a young man who wants to swich ideas) and perhaps have some explanation about his vision.
No matter how, no matter when, this propose will be up for you to think about it.
Hope you read it and could think about it, just for a change...
It'll be pretty fun, I promise!
Thank you for all the good works.
The videos are amazing!
Excellent video, my Father was an evil Monster, used to go to hospital after severe beatings from age two until my Mother ran away with me at eight years old.. this behavior runs in the family, my Grand parents had letters from cousin Franz, we mostly seem to be overachievers, I’m a known artist
your cousin Franz?
"Daddy issues"
Your video will probably be lovely
And well researched
But you are discribing a persons life time worth of misery and mental illness and you chose the " Daddy issues "