Id, Ego and Superego in Lord of the Flies and Heart of Darkness

Within Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Marlow asserts that "the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future" (HOD 109.) As Marlow journeys deeper into the Congo he is forced to adapt to the jungle environment and in the process he begins to lose his understanding of societal rules and ideals. His "psychological self" is coerced into adapting to the rustic environment of the …showed first 75 words of 1301 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1301 total…is buried in our unconscious. Like mentioned above, these choirboys and sophisticated Europeans never imagined that they would be acting as they did when they reached their respective destinations. The immense unconscious id took over in many of the characters but when brought back into society returned to their previous balances. Books used William Golding's Lord of the Flies, published in 1959 by Perigee Trade Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, published in 1997 by Mass Market Paperback