The most interesting idea for me in Murfin’s article is the idea that the Heart of Darkness is “not a disguised expression of Conrad’s personal, repressed wishes; it is rather a manifestation of the desires of the whole human race once had but were repressed after becoming civilized” (117). The ID is extremely important to Freud essential argument and I agree with Murfin that it is not Conrad’s subconscious that is writing Heart of Darkness but rather something that is engrained in all humans that eventually we as a society grow out of and Conrad was simply able to tap into one of those primal feelings. However, the question I pose is did the author know that it was his subconscious ID that he was tapping into, and do the writers of stories like Hamlet know what they are including when they write ideas like the Oedipal Complex.
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