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Gregor’s metamorphosis is a metaphoric journey through the basic points in Freudian psychoanalytical thought. Freud includes three levels of consciousness in his works, the super-ego, ego, and the id. The ego is concerned with reality, id with the subconscious, and the super-ego is a link between the ego and the id. The Metamorphosis is a story by Franz Kafka about a man named Gregor Samsa who one day wakes up to find himself “changed …

…first time and “she became so frightened that she lost control of herself and slammed the door shut again” (Kafka, 23). Eventually, Grete begins to show annoyance about being in the presence of her brother and finally shares her feelings with her family. Grete says, “We must try to get rid of it” (Kafka, 51). After Gregor’s death she is content to go on with the rest of her life, without the burden of her brother.