What do you think of this guy

And his work?
Got any favourites of his works?

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A brainlet's Dostoyevsky

... That's like your opinion man and originally so

chrissy

the only famous schizoid person

I wouldn't say that, what lead you to that conclusion?

theres this rly good book but i cant rmb it now. so i'll just drop some stuff from google

claimed that Kafka may have possessed a schizoid personality disorder.[92] His style, it is claimed, not only in "Die Verwandlung" ("The Metamorphosis"), but in various other writings, appears to show low to medium-level schizoid traits, which explain much of his work.[

The tremendous world I have in my head. But how to free myself and free them without ripping apart? And a thousand times rather tear in me they hold back or buried. For this I'm here, that's quite clear to me.[95]

Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible within himself, though both that indestructible something and his own trust in it may remain permanently concealed from him.[96]

Though Kafka never married, he held marriage and children in high esteem. He had several girlfriends.[97] He may have suffered from an eating disorder. Doctor Manfred M. Fichter of the Psychiatric Clinic, University of Munich, presented "evidence for the hypothesis that the writer Franz Kafka had suffered from an atypical anorexia nervosa",[98] and that Kafka was not just lonely and depressed but also "occasionally suicidal".[80] In his 1995 book Franz Kafka, the Jewish Patient, Sander Gilman investigated "why a Jew might have been considered 'hypochondriac' or 'homosexual' and how Kafka incorporates aspects of these ways of understanding the Jewish male into his own self-image and writing".[99] Kafka considered committing suicide at least once, in late 1912.[100]

.....One of the most characteristic traits of the people whom psychiatrists label schizoid is their inability to make close relationships with people without feeling threatened. The typical schizoid dilemma is a desperate need for love combined with an equally desperate fear of close involvement. Kafka was a writer who vividly portrayed this dilemma in extreme form, and who also used avoidance

Okay, but do you like any works of him though?

I like him but he's too kikey

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