Attention is directed once more to the importance of Greenacre's concept of collective (cosmic) alternates as a special attribute of creativity. Behind the beautiful, awesome descriptions of river passage through the jungles of Africa lurk primal memories of early infancy, primal scene fantasies, and castration themes. Involved too in creativity are projective-introjective experiences of bodily Gestalten. The gift of the creative artist is based on the alive feelings of conditions dependent on the establishment of cosmic alternates. It consists of the fusion of outside and inner self. In addition to the increased perceptive capacity of the artist there is his ability to express these perceptual and emotional nuances in communicable form. It is suggested that in Heart of Darkness Conrad was sensitive to the cultural and spiritual currents of the time and was both describing and forecasting the revolt against colonialism.