ANALYSIS: In the second decade of the twentieth century, the ideas of the great psychologist Sigmund Freud began to influence the novelists. Dreams, fantasies and obsessions became significant aspects of modern characters. The new realism lay not in plot but in complexities of individual psychology. The writers experimented with form and time of narration, which is regarded as a part of the character's consciousness ... is something much more profound. The Heart of Darkness as a whole is one big metaphor, whose numerous examples can be either complicated or self-evident. Almost every action, ...

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... the fact that our psyche is fragmented, unbalanced, and ill-adapted to reality. Jungian treatment requires us waking up to the unconscious dynamics creating our suffering. A unique aspect of Jungian analysis is the provocative notion that direction for what we need to deal with and who we must become to function fully, comes from within ourselves. Jungian psychology proposes that there ... we say "I" we are speaking from the ego complex. That means we are identifying with certain structures associated with the ego including the body-image and the usual sense of character structure (such...

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