This article attempts to illuminate the different levels of Kafka Tamura’s unconscious desires and mind process, the protagonist of Haruki Murakami’s masterpiece, Kafka on the Shore (2005). Although some psychoanalytical research studies have been conducted on the psyche of Kafka, none of them followed the traces of different levels of his unconscious psyche to reveal the depth of his tormented soul due to his bitter experiences. There is a need for a closer examination of Kafka’s psyche based on the concept of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s anti-oedipalism. By taking anti-oedipalism as the methodology, Kafka can transfer from the first level as an oedipalized individual under the control of his father’s power to level two, in which he becomes an anti-oedipal revolutionist who fights with the preprogrammed ideologies of society. The results show that, in the third level, Kafka can become a freethinker who decides independently in an anoedipal world.

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