ABSTRACT
Joseph Conrad has been a figure of great interest within the field of psychobiography and the study of the creative process. Conrad recalled some childhood memories of his parents which affirm the hypercathexis of the internalized lost object occurring after childhood loss. Most importantly, Almayer’s Folly was completed at the time of the anniversary of Conrad’s mother’s death, and in the story, Almayer dies after being abandoned by Nina whose name bears some similarity to Conrad’s mother’s, Evelina. In November 1894, Conrad met his future wife, Jessie George, whose father was dead, and began his second novel An Outcast of the Islands, which was published at the time of their marriage in March 1896. Motivated by the early deaths of his parents, Conrad went to sea at the age of 16, and later pursued a literary career where guilt and expiation were prominent issues.
