Blog 40 Body #2

Kids responding after the teacher told them the first part of an idiom.

Freud’s greater argument however is that the ID actually controls how humans interact even though people themselves are not continence of there thoughts and actions. The ID makes decisions for people; however, since one cannot understand his/her ID people interoperate the ID’s decisions as his/her own conscience decision when in reality his/her brain has already made the decision and the conscious mind is the last to receive the message. Freud would describe Kurtz as someone who has let down all his filters and reverted back to the primitive: “men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but that a powerful measure of desire for aggression has to be reckoned as part of their instinctual endowment” (Freud 63). Through Kurtz, Conrad exemplifies Freud’s point, even though Conrad would not have known that this was Freud’s writings, because with absolutely no boundaries, Kurtz adapts to the African continent by going savage. Freud would argue that Kurtz’s killing sprees and savage nature towards the natives of Africa or his “neighbors” is simply his instinct and his ID controlling Kurtz because Kurtz lets down his boundaries and lets his unconscious mind take over his conscious.