how to explain stream of consciousness

stream of consciousness n. , pl. streams of consciousness . A literary technique that presents the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur.

意识流是一种表现人物内心意识的文学创作手法，通常以自我独白的形式出现。

stream of consciousness

in literature, technique that records the multifarious thoughts and feelings of a character without regard to logical argument or narrative sequence. The writer attempts by the stream of consciousness to reflect all the forces, external and internal, influencing the psychology of a character at a single moment. The technique was first employed by Édouard Dujardin (1861–1949) in his novel Les Lauriers sont coupés (1888) and was subsequently used by such notable writers as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner. The phrase “stream of consciousness” to indicate the flow of inner experience was first used by William James in Principles of Psychology (1890).

stream of consciousness

in literature, technique that recor