FRANZ KAFKA KNEW HIS FREUD. In complicated ways he grew up and into the age of Freud. Much as the surrealists such as Max Ernst and André Breton “invented” Freud, finding in Freud “scientific” proof of their own manner of seeing the world, Kafka too created his own Freud. And Freud in his deepest fantasies about the psyche invented the world in which Ernst and Breton and Kafka could be imagined. Like Freud’s own “dream book,” which Kafka read and annotated, Kafka’s diaries are full of real, invented, or desired dreams (see Sokel and Born). Indeed, in complex ways and in spite of his struggle with psychoanalysis, Kafka’s fascination with the dream as a key to his own internal life remained consistent over his adult life. But as often as not Kafka’s dreams (like that of Gregor Samsa) were waking dreams: “Ich kann nicht schlafen. Nur Träume kein Schlaf” (T 567; I can’t sleep. Only dreams, no sleep) he wrote on 21 July 1913 (cited in Guidice and Müller 18). These waking dreams are constructed from what Freud calls “day residue,” the images left over from daily experience. Kafka knew this category and wrote on 11 February 1914 to Grete Bloch: “Diese Art Schlaf, die ich habe, ist mit oberflächlichen, durchaus nicht phantastischen, sondern das Tagesdenken nur aufgeregter wiederholenden Träumen durchaus wachsamer und anstrengender als das Wachen” (LFFE 18; This type of sleep I have is superficial, truly not fantastic, rather constructed from the thoughts of day; they are exciting, repetitious dreams that are more lively and exhausting than being awake). On 22 March 1922 Kafka entered into his diary the following dream: “Nachmittag Traum vom Geschwür an der Wange. Die fortwährend zitternde Grenze zwischen dem gewöhnlichen Leben und dem scheinbar wirklicheren Schrecken” (T 913; In the afternoon a dream of a tumor on the cheek. The continually trembling border between the normal life and the seemingly more real horror). Let us imagine with Kafka where such a dream can be located within the world of culture and dreaming of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.