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Marlow's dream like visions as well as altered perspective demonstrates Marlow's arrival into the inner station which parallels  with Conrad's penetration into Marlow's id.  Murfin's insight into Frued's explanation of the id illustrates the drastic shift that occurs between the ego and the id. "the predominately passional, irrational, unknown and unconscious part of the psyche the id" (Murfin 114).  Unconscious and unknown, the main characterists of the ID contrast with the ego's ratoional which ultamelty creates conflict and a shift in Marlow's behavior.  The ID is where Marlow's dreams and desires can finally be made reality, only when he is close to the inner station.  Once Marlow supersedes limbo, the threshold between the ego and the id, Marlow becomes fully immersed into his unconscious and is able to purees his represed desirers. "Behind the blind whiteness of the fog"(Conrand 401).  The paradoxical blindness with the whiteness of the fog effectively conveys the dream like limbo Marlow is in before he is fully immensed into the darkness of the ID.  The white fog's location right before Marlow reaches the inner station signifies the in-between state Marlow of the ego and the Id thus Conrad is almsost fully penetrated into Conrad's darnkest and "blind" desires that can only be achieve in the inner station.  As Marlow reaches the inner station, his morals and his perspective is comelpley altered from the beginning of the journey.  This amoral perspective only occurs where there are no laws and rules and where Marlows true repressed thoughts are able to be revealed.  "For near the house half a dozen slim posts remained in a row, roughly trimmed, and with their upper ends ornamted with round carved balls"(Conrad 409).  The heads on the posts at kurtz's inner station, the man who he idolizes, is the cruelest experience Marlow has on his journey and his understated reaction exemplifies his altered mental state.  Marlow's idolization of such a creul man conveys his unconscious desirers, as when Marlow is in the ego or super ego state, he is extremely rational and would not associate himself with such a malcontent man like kurtz.