Based on the Freudian point of view as regards the psychic sources of the writer's material, the author examines Kafka's “Letter to my father” as an example of a text that did not aspire to literary pretensions when it was written. Such a text, in spite of its heavy content, which expresses suffering, frustration, rage, and humiliation, still produces pleasure in its reading. The ideas of Derrida, Bakhtin, and Barthes are used as approaches to the structure of a text in order to understand the reasons for which it can be considered artistic and, despite its heavy content, still evokes the pleasure of the reading.