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In the correspondence between Kafka and Milena arise “threads” between incandescence and consummation of the letter, particularly from 1920 when the letters shift toward epistolary witchcraft. Here, ghosts and phantoms are in a crescendo. Moreover, writing combines the mapping of the body and places. The Kafka/Prague dialectic is the result of all forms of projections and travel through the loopholes of Prague in a tragic contact. The thread of correspondence dissolves in Prague, is woven through the “political” tyranny of the father, Judaism, and the family constellation, traumatic objects that extend the body of Kafka, including in his letters to Milena. Is the possession of places a symbolic possession of the feminine? Does Kafka take “possession” of Milena? While Benjamin notes that Kafka remains a “modern citizen,” this paper also reproduces a few letters to Milena that reveal Kafka’s thoughts on psychoanalysis.