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Just as Marlow's darkness envelops his mindset and clouds his once "moral" European views, Conrad is just as capable of doing so by wiring the book Heart of Darkness. In Heart of Darkness Africa represents so much more than just a continental space on a map, it represents a both physical and mental realm where society has no hold on people. As a space of utter savagery, the Congo becomes Marlow's playground, so much so that he finds himself losing his affinity to the very people that joined him, the Europeans, on his journey to the epicenter of Africa and siding with Kurtz and his gang of savages. By further examining the predicament our protagonist Marlow finds himself in, we notice that this entire situation or literary work that reason might actually be an unconscious projection made by Conrad's subconscious id. By writing about liberation and wild African freedom Conrad uses Marlow as a means to escape the restraining European societal expectations he is surrounded by and places himself in a foreign land where nothing, not even his "superego" can control him.