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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;juris klavins, post: 7683477, member: 76693&quot;]<font size="5"><b>Definition[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stream_of_consciousness&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stream_of_consciousness&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" rel="nofollow">edit</a>]</b></font></p><p>Stream of consciousness is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative_device" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative_device" rel="nofollow">narrative device</a> that attempts to give the written equivalent of the character&#039;s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_process" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_process" rel="nofollow">thought processes</a>, either in a loose interior monologue (see below), or in connection to his or her actions. Stream-of-consciousness writing is usually regarded as a special form of interior monologue and is characterized by associative leaps in thought and lack of some or all punctuation.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_of_consciousness#cite_note-6" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_of_consciousness#cite_note-6" rel="nofollow">[6]</a> Stream of consciousness and interior monologue are distinguished from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dramatic_monologue" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dramatic_monologue" rel="nofollow">dramatic monologue</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soliloquy" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soliloquy" rel="nofollow">soliloquy</a>, where the speaker is addressing an audience or a third person, which are chiefly used in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry" rel="nofollow">poetry</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drama" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drama" rel="nofollow">drama</a>. In-stream of consciousness, the speaker&#039;s thought processes are more often depicted as overheard in the mind (or addressed to oneself); it is primarily a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictional_device" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictional_device" rel="nofollow">fictional device</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>An early use of the term is found in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher" rel="nofollow">philosopher</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychologist" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychologist" rel="nofollow">psychologist</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James" rel="nofollow">William James</a>&#039;s <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Principles_of_Psychology" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Principles_of_Psychology" rel="nofollow">The Principles of Psychology</a></i> (1890):</p><p><br /></p><p>consciousness, then, does not appear to itself as chopped up in bits ... it is nothing joined; it flows. A &#039;river&#039; or a &#039;stream&#039; are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. <i>In talking of it hereafter, let&#039;s call it the stream of thought, consciousness, or subjective life.</i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_of_consciousness#cite_note-7" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_of_consciousness#cite_note-7" rel="nofollow">[7]</a></p><p><br /></p><p>In the following example of stream of consciousness from James Joyce&#039;s <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(novel)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(novel)" rel="nofollow">Ulysses</a></i>, Molly seeks sleep:</p><p><br /></p><p>a quarter after what an unearthly hour I suppose they&#039;re just getting up in China now combing out their pigtails for the day well soon have the nuns ringing the angelus they&#039;ve nobody coming in to spoil their sleep except an odd priest or two for his night office the alarm clock next door at cockshout clattering the brains out of itself let me see if I can doze off 1 2 3 4 5 what kind of flowers are those they invented like the stars the wallpaper in Lombard street was much nicer the apron he gave me was like that something only I only wore it twice better lower this lamp and try again so that I can get up early<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_of_consciousness#cite_note-8" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_of_consciousness#cite_note-8" rel="nofollow">[8]</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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