Dante Interpreted: A Brief Summary of the Life, Times and Character of Dante Book

Jungian analysis of Kafka's inner life. His lifelong conflict between inability to live a provisional life while also devoting time for his artistic calling, is explained using concepts of puer aeternus that seem to have caused his lifelong neurosis. As per the author, while Kafka was unable to integrate his anima with his ego complex (ultimate way to escape the puer personality and grow into an adult) until the very end of his life (which by the way was cruelly cut short due to poor health), he avoided complete psychological destruction mainly due to his writing and a constant undercurrent of hope, that finally resulted in spiritual denouement - experience of the reality of the psyche shortly before his death. One point deducted for overreach of retroactive explanation drawn from Kafka's diaries.