To attempt to come to ‘terms’ with Franz Kafka’s ‘The Judgment’ (‘Das Urteil’) in such a critical reading, we place father and son on a socio-historical and geo-political stage that highlights the force-field between “old” Bendemann (with passed Mother and surrogate son at the one pole) and “poor” Georg (with naught [Nichts] but the general “Mann” [(hu) man at the other]), in view of Freud’s organizing principle of “anxiety” (Angst ); which rescues (redeems) the son, paradoxically, in a no-win situation, (precisely) from his own dire fate, in a timely fashion. Finally, we go behind and beyond any tragic-comedic scenes, where the materially liberated and spiritually potentiated “sparks” of Kafka’s accomplishment (“breakthrough”) does its work, on the individual and particular, communal and universal, levels.