Rough Idea

The source of Marlow's psychosis is from the lack of structure that defines and creates the darkness of Africa. There are no laws nor those to enforce them, resulting in an anarchistic arena in which people's darkest and deepest fantasies may be pursued. "Both he and Conrad penetrated into the darkness, the darkness entered into when people sleep or when their consciences sleep, when they are free to pursue secret wishes, whether in dreams, like Freud's analysands, or in actuality, like Kurtz and his followers."(Karl). You spend enough time living in a world in which there are no consequences for your actions and you yourself become a savage. In fact, because the savages can be outwardly savage, they are not as "dangerous" as the English; the English have been repressing their instinctual desires for their entire lives so when placed in a world where they can entertain them, the results can be far more detrimental.