Marlow's not only physical but phycological journey begins at the outer station, where through his observations and citing, Marlow is psychologically in his super ego. Marlow's first time down the congo river, he encounters a plethora of shocking and novel experiences that his perception of these encounters demonstrates that he is psychologically in the super ego while starting through the outer station. "Chain-gang…Ive seen the devil of violence, and the devil of greed, and the devil of hot desire…red-eyed devils, how insidious he could be…blinding sunshine" (Conrad, 380). Marlow's morals are shown with his recognition of the brutality of the enslaved Africans. Marlow witnesses something that is extremely immoral, and he understands the significance of the brutality and the super ego brings that morality out of people. The irony is that as the journey continues, and the experiences become more violent, Marlow is unaware and is not able to recognize the immorality of what he is witnessing. Marlow's actions as well demonstrate his saneness and his morality that are exemplified a majority of the time only on his way near the outer station. "The black bones reclined full length with one shoulder against the tree, a kind of blind, white flicker, the man seemed young…offer him one of my swede biscuits" (Conrad 381). The morality that Marlow has, to offer someone that he has never meet or someone that he needs nothing from, from the goodness of his heart, Marlow offers the man food. Marlow has no business interacting with the man and yet he does the morally right thing to try to help the man to see what Marlow can do to help. We see that this only occurs when he is journeying between the outer station and the central station. The paradox of the blind and white flicker, illustratesthat Marlow brings the white truth and conscious goodness in a place where blindness and darkness is very pertinent.
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