Frederick Karl’s “Danse Macabre,” is a psychoanalytic writing of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Karl believes that the work of Conrad was heavily influenced by the work of Freud. He states that “ Freud did major work on dreams in the 1890’s, the same time that Conrad was fermenting ideas about the Congo and personal and political expedience in a quicksand, nightmarish world.” The extraordinary parallelism between the achievements of the two men is evidence of how influential they were on each other. Furthermore, Karl is not the only author to mention the parallelism between Freud and Conrad. In Muffin’s writings he also mentions the similarities between the Freud and Conrad. Many can see the influence of Freud’s work through his short novel, Heart of Darkness.
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