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Marlow's journey into Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" explores how far the human mind and body are willing to go when no restrictions are placed on condemnable actions. The dream-like environment of The Heart of Darkness is described as being absent of rules, restrictions, and limitations that would normally halt an individual from pursuing his deepest, darkest desires. Here, in the heart of darkness an individual's id is allowed to triumph and any desires or temptations that might have been subdued in a civilized society are able to manifest. This carefree and dominant lifestyle is best demonstrated by the jungle's master ivory collector, Kurtz. Marlow develops an obsessive fascination with Kurtz and continues his journey into the heart of darkness in order to investigate the powerful figure that Kurtz represents. Marlow represents the perspective of an outsider looking in; he brings his societal values and morals with him into the Congo, and therefore judges each of the situations he is in with much discretion. His outsider perspective sparks his fascination in this dream like world. His assessments of Kurtz's actions places Kurtz as both a God-like figure who controls all, and as an evil-minded being who lacks human emotion. Although the reader, through Marlow's point of view, witnesses the powerful and domineering personality of Kurtz, analysis of psychoanalytic criticism and a deeper glance into the heart of darkness reveals that at some point even in a dream like world there is a breaking point and that Kurtz's power to control actually results from him succumbing to the temptations from the jungle; in actuality the Heart of Darkness controls Kurtz, not the other way around.