The Stream of consciousness technique

 The phrase  "Stream of consciousness" 

 first used by William James in his principles of psychology(1890). It's also known as interior monologue. It is a literary technique largely used by 20th-century fiction writers.

The Stream of consciousness novel existence to knew psychological ideas that emphasized the multiplicity of consciousness and subconsciousness in which past experience was retained and by whose retention the whole of personality was coloured and determined.

Stream of consciousness technique enables the writer to portray the inner status of a character in an effective and convincing way. In this way, the author takes the reader inside the mind of the character to follow his or her thought patterns.

Stream of consciousness often presents rapid shifts in the character’s thought processes, such as memories, feelings, etc, by means of flashback and foreshadowing. That means the characters’ mind is shifted from one position to another seemingly discontinuous one so that the audience needs to draw an inference about their connection and also about the upcoming twists. In this way the author is able to retain the reader’s interest till the end of the text.

Stream-of-consciousness technique sometimes contributes to the overall development of the plot.

Example: 

  -  James Joyce's

 Ulysses (1922)

A portrait of the Artist as a young man (1916)

    - Virginia Woolf's       

 Mrs. Dalloway  (1925) 

To the light house

- D.H. Lawrence's 

Sons and Lovers (1913)

The white peacock

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