Kafka’s universe is that of extreme alienation: the subject is confronted with an..Other whose machinery functions in an..‘irrational’ way. ..The..stance..towards this Other is that of impotent fascination.

SLAVOJ ZIZEK on the experience of seeing in-groups with the feeling of not belonging, looking at them as Other, in Kafka’s novels the Court and the Castle bureaucracy and their implicit rules create a sense of being shut out by the Otherness within those others of one group. http://ift.tt/1Pfgvoq