Stream Of Consciousness Analysis

CHAPTER 1- INTRODUCTION

STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN TERM OF PSYCHOLOGY

The Stream of Consciousness is a part of psychology. In psychological term, it is the process of consciousness conceived of as a flowing, ongoing stream in imaginations and ideas, analogous to a stream of water. In this the word “stream” here means the flow thoughts through the mind of a person. Basically, the external events are stimulus to the internal events and outer actions is the result of the inner thought process.

Sigmund Freud explains that there is different level of consciousness:

Freud’s theory considers the sources and consequences of emotional conflicts and the way people deal with these. For this, the human mind

It is widely considered her most successful use of stream-of-consciousness narrative; nonlinear plot, and interior monologue; crisply identifying characters without the formal structure of chronological time and omniscient narration, as well as her most perfectly realized fictional reflection on mortality, subjectivity, and the passage of time. The novel is often described as an elegy to Woolf’s mother, and as such it is thought to be a complex and poetic character study, incorporating all facets of personality, including emotions dark and hopeless. In her diary Woolf recorded her many difficulties in writing To the Lighthouse, including her fears about reliving her parents’ deaths—events that precipitated two of her most devastating emotional breakdowns. But Woolf evidently realized the greater significance of To the Lighthouse beyond its fictional portrayal of her childhood; in a diary entry written during her final revision of the novel in 1926 she wrote, “My present opinion is that it is easily the best of my books,” an assessment with which most critics

In A Portrait he puts us inside the mind of young boy, shows us his vulnerabilities, his strengths, his disillusionment, his empowerment, and his triumph. We get to understand Stephen Dedalus (protagonist in the portrait of an artist as a young man) as nobody else could, growing with him as we read the novel, and that is the true power of the stream of consciousness: that we can all swim in it. Stream of consciousness also allows for interesting use of montage throughout the novel; we are able to see Stephen connect different ideas together with mental leaps. Lastly, Joyce places heavy emphasis on moving the story forward through epiphany. On his journey from boy to artist, Stephen has numerous moments of enlightenment, and displaying Stephen’s raw mental experience during those moments is a powerful way to convey the potency of the epiphany and the growth of the