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> [“The social organization of Heart of Darkness – captured in the corporate culture of the ‘Company’ – is a metonym for modernity. It is powerfully linked to the psychic through the symbolic order. In the novel’s primal scene, young Marlow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-ross/the-social-organization-of-heart-of-darkness-captured-in-the/)

Stephen Ross

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## More by Stephen Ross

> [“The social organization of Heart of Darkness – captured in the corporate culture of the ‘Company’ – is a metonym for modernity. It is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-ross/the-social-organization-of-heart-of-darkness-captured-in-the/)

Stephen Ross

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