The goal of this article is to explore Kafka's relationship with psychoanalysis in one of his most biographical texts, Letter to the Father, and the effects that Kafka's literary imagination has had on the interpretation of modern subjectivity by contemporary philosophers. Establishing relations between Kafk a and the readings of this auElias Canetti, among others, the article proposes that Kafka is a post-psychoanalytic or post-oedipal writer insofar as he makes literature a space without illness or cure.