Stream of Consciousness

A narrative technique that renders a character's continuous, unedited flow of thoughts, sense impressions and associations as they occur, often abandoning conventional syntax and punctuation to imitate thought's own unruly movement rather than reporting it in orderly retrospective prose. The term was coined not by a literary critic but by the psychologist William James, who used 'stream of consciousness' in his 1890 The Principles of Psychology to describe the mind's continuous, unbroken flow of experience; novelists including James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner adapted the idea into a literary method during the Modernist period, most fully in Joyce's Ulysses (1922), Woolf's Mrs Dalloway (1925) and Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury (1929). This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/