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单词 stream of consciousness
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Definition of stream of consciousness in English:

stream of consciousness

noun
Psychology
  • 1A person's thoughts and conscious reactions to events, perceived as a continuous flow. The term was introduced by William James in his Principles of Psychology (1890).

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is a stream of consciousness where Benjy remembers events not in a chronological order but as free association brings them to his mind.
    • I swallowed hard as the visions began to fade from my stream of consciousness and I became aware once more of my mother's presence.
    • I have an occasional experience in which I can see the subliminal at work in my own stream of consciousness.
    • Controlled yet so easily distracted, his camera eye acknowledges that existence is merely an ongoing stream of consciousness, intuition, dissociation.
    • A stream of consciousness of wit and despair is matched by tips about reverse phone psychology; if you don't think about it the phone will ring.
    • I know this is all just stream of consciousness, here, but I think the human psychology behind it is the same.
    • How do these hypothesized moral-spiritual events take place in the experiential stream of consciousness?
    • And they're almost free-association, stream of consciousness.
    • Maybe I should start at an earlier point in my stream of consciousness.
    • Now, for beliefs to have the actual and potential consequences they do, it is not necessary that everything that you believe should be in your conscious mind, in the stream of consciousness.
    1. 1.1 A literary style in which a character's thoughts, feelings, and reactions are depicted in a continuous flow uninterrupted by objective description or conventional dialogue. James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust are among its notable early exponents.
      as modifier a stream-of-consciousness monologue
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In addition to that, this time I have more of an idea of what to expect in terms of the style in which the book is written, the whole stream of consciousness, free association thing.
      • Other authors have experimented with putting their stream-of-consciousness narrators in motion with mixed results, since the awkwardness of self narrated movement introduces a dissonance into the narration.
      • Did Basu want to use stream of consciousness as her literary métier?
      • It was the most challenging of the pieces with stream-of-consciousness dialogue and monologues freely mixed together as a man and a woman meet on a beach.
      • As a result the book is fiery, but not entirely cohesive; at times it resembles a stream-of-consciousness monologue.
      • She was a pioneer of the stream-of-consciousness technique, narrating the action through the mind of her heroine Miriam.
      • Updating the stream-of-consciousness technique of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Shaw transforms his dreams into a droll epic crammed with postwar American flotsam and jetsam.
      • Bleached of punctuation, the words flow freely in a stream of consciousness manner reminiscent of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf.
      • This makes it feel stream-of-consciousness even though the arrangements are serious, the extra quirks - toy percussion and piano, a choppy Spanish guitar - woven in with care.
      • It makes one think it was a kind of stream of consciousness, a dream writing.
 
 

Definition of stream of consciousness in US English:

stream of consciousness

nounstrim əv
Psychology
  • 1A person's thoughts and conscious reactions to events, perceived as a continuous flow. The term was introduced by William James in his Principles of Psychology (1890).

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Maybe I should start at an earlier point in my stream of consciousness.
    • Now, for beliefs to have the actual and potential consequences they do, it is not necessary that everything that you believe should be in your conscious mind, in the stream of consciousness.
    • I know this is all just stream of consciousness, here, but I think the human psychology behind it is the same.
    • I have an occasional experience in which I can see the subliminal at work in my own stream of consciousness.
    • It is a stream of consciousness where Benjy remembers events not in a chronological order but as free association brings them to his mind.
    • Controlled yet so easily distracted, his camera eye acknowledges that existence is merely an ongoing stream of consciousness, intuition, dissociation.
    • And they're almost free-association, stream of consciousness.
    • A stream of consciousness of wit and despair is matched by tips about reverse phone psychology; if you don't think about it the phone will ring.
    • How do these hypothesized moral-spiritual events take place in the experiential stream of consciousness?
    • I swallowed hard as the visions began to fade from my stream of consciousness and I became aware once more of my mother's presence.
    1. 1.1 A literary style in which a character's thoughts, feelings, and reactions are depicted in a continuous flow uninterrupted by objective description or conventional dialogue. James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust are among its notable early exponents.
      as modifier a stream-of-consciousness monologue
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This makes it feel stream-of-consciousness even though the arrangements are serious, the extra quirks - toy percussion and piano, a choppy Spanish guitar - woven in with care.
      • Other authors have experimented with putting their stream-of-consciousness narrators in motion with mixed results, since the awkwardness of self narrated movement introduces a dissonance into the narration.
      • In addition to that, this time I have more of an idea of what to expect in terms of the style in which the book is written, the whole stream of consciousness, free association thing.
      • As a result the book is fiery, but not entirely cohesive; at times it resembles a stream-of-consciousness monologue.
      • Updating the stream-of-consciousness technique of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Shaw transforms his dreams into a droll epic crammed with postwar American flotsam and jetsam.
      • She was a pioneer of the stream-of-consciousness technique, narrating the action through the mind of her heroine Miriam.
      • It makes one think it was a kind of stream of consciousness, a dream writing.
      • Bleached of punctuation, the words flow freely in a stream of consciousness manner reminiscent of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf.
      • It was the most challenging of the pieces with stream-of-consciousness dialogue and monologues freely mixed together as a man and a woman meet on a beach.
      • Did Basu want to use stream of consciousness as her literary métier?
 
 
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