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Definition of Stream of consciousness

1. Noun. A literary genre that reveals a character's thoughts and feeling as they develop by means of a long soliloquy.

2. Noun. The continuous flow of ideas and feelings that constitute an individual's conscious experience.

Definition of Stream of consciousness

1. Noun. the continuous flow of thoughts that makes up an individual's conscious experience ¹

2. Noun. a literary device that seeks to describe this process by means of a long, unstructured soliloquy ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Stream of consciousness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals by William James (1900)
"THE stream of consciousness I SAID a few minutes ago that the most general elements and workings of the mind are all that the teacher absolutely needs to be ..."

2. Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals by William James (1906)
"THE stream of consciousness I SAID a few minutes ago that the most general elements and workings of the mind are all that the teacher absolutely needs to be ..."

3. The Classical Psychologists: Selections Illustrating Psychology from by Benjamin Rand (1912)
"THE stream of consciousness The order of our study must be analytic. We are now prepared to begin the introspective study of the adult consciousness itself. ..."

4. Psychology by William James (1892)
"THE stream of consciousness. The order of our study must be analytic. ... stream of consciousness ..."

5. Psychology by William James (1892)
"THE stream of consciousness. The order of our study must be analytic. We are now prepared to begi.i the introspective study of the adult consciousness ..."

6. Talks to teachers on psychology: And to Students on Some of Lifehs Ideals by William James (1900)
"THE stream of consciousness I SAID a few minutes ago that the most general elements and workings of the mind are all that the teacher absolutely needs to be ..."

7. Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals by William James (1901)
"THE stream of consciousness I SAID a few minutes ago that the most general elements and workings of the mind are all that the teacher absolutely needs to be ..."

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