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THE STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS - Coggle Diagram
THE STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Authors experimented with styles, techniques and words to express not only their reaction against 19 th century tradition also desire give voice to new concept of human consciousness and human life
STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS TECHNIQUE
Used by authors early 20th century to write their books
Main goal: render free flux of thoughts of characters without any intervention of author
Achieved through a series of devices: Fragmentaion of character’s perspective, breaking of syntactic and grammar rules, overlapping of past and present events
Idea of stream of consciousness in literature was result of interactions of a series of important factors:
Influence of S. Fraud : Role of Unconscious
Difference between Objective and Subjective Time
Sense of Anxiety, fragmentation and loss caused by I° World War
Epiphanies
Characters become aware of their condition of paralysis
Theorised by American Philosopher
William James
Consciousness cannot be organized in a rational way and cannot be described objectively
Consciousness: is a constantly flowing stream in which past and present events and perceptions coexist
Discovering Consciousness Freud and Bergerson
Freud’s Theory of Human Psyche in The Interpretation of Dreams proposed revolutionary idea:
Human consciousness is a multi-layered entity and most of it is uknown
Mysterious part of the Mind is called: Unconscious
technical attempt made by modernist writers to use words
to describe new concept of Modern self
( Freud)
Bergerson revolutionized the
Concept of Time:
is structured not as series of discrete units rather than
objective time
and disintegration of traditional linear plots