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This is how one should approach Odradek, one of Kafka's key achievements:1<ref>Franz Kafka, "The Cares of a Family Man," The Complete Stories, New York: Shocken Books, 1986.</ref>
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Odradek is thus simply what Lacan, in his Seminar XI and in his seminal écrit "Positions de l'inconscient,"2 <ref>Jacques Lacan, "Les positions de l'inconscient," Écrits, Paris: Seuil, 1966.</ref> developed as lamella: libido as an organ, the inhuman-human "undead" organ without a body, the mythical pre-subjective "undead" life-substance, or, rather, the remainder of the Life-Substance which has escaped the symbolic colonization, the horrible palpitation of the "acephal" drive which persists beyond ordinary death, nomadic, outside the scope of paternal authority, with no fixed domicile. The choice underlying Kafka's story is thus Lacan's le père ou pire, "the father or worse": Odradek is "the worst" as an alternative to the father.
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