Murfin's "Psychoanalytic Criticism and Heart of Darkness" demonstrates the connection between the author's influential mental state on the reader as well as the perceptions the reader encounters while percieving the text. Thus, Murfin describes psychoanalytic symbols to intertwine with the reader's mind, like Oedipal desires. I like when Murfin analyzes Marlow's "id" and "superego." Since Marlow has the internal conflict between his id and super ego throughout his dreamlike journey into the darkness of the Congo, his internal conflict conflicts with the reader's internal mental state as well. I mostly agree with all of Murfin's analysis of Heart of Darkness, except some parts of his analysis are a little unclear to me.
Question: What does Murfin mean by "the readers are drawn to a text based on what we desire to hear"?
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