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CULTURAL PSYCHOSIS ON THE FRONTIER: THE WORK OF THE DARKNESS IN JOSEPH CONRAD'S HEART OF DARKNESS.
From: Studies in the Novel
Date: 20000322
Author:BROWN, TONY C.
Therein consists the most elementary formal definition of psychosis: the massive presence of some real that fills out and blocks the perspective openness which is constitutive of "reality."
Slavoj Zizek, "Grimaces of the Real"(1)
Heart of Darkness has perversely proved a central document in postcolonial discourse. As Homi K. Bhabha puts it, "the long shadow of Conrad's Heart of Darkness falls on so many texts of the postcolonial pedagogy."(2) Notably, Bhabha cites Edward W. Said's Culture and Imperialism as an exemplary example of such a text:
Heart of Darkness is ...
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