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In this paper Phyllis Greenacre's concept of collective (cosmic) alternates is applied to Joseph Conrad's well-known story Heart of Darkness. The paper attempts to demonstrate that the description of the African landscape is based on a projective-introjective experience of bodily Gestalten. The intense effect of these descriptions is based on the willingness to fuse self and outside world, which the author's linguistic skill evokes in the reader.