What is the popular explanation of stream of consciousness?

The popular explanation of stream of consciousness is as follows:

1. Stream of consciousness novel is a novel style that rose in the 1920s. Its outstanding feature is to break the traditional expression of novels and use the method of directly describing the process of stream of consciousness to structure chapters and shape characters.

2. Stream of consciousness can break the boundaries between time and space, and describe it in a three-dimensional way, which has great concentration and cohesion. To sum up, it can be said that subjectivity and irrationality are its universal characteristics.

3. Most of the stream-of-consciousness novels that first appeared were simple, and later developed into interlaced novels. The appearance of compound novels further strengthens the expressive force and three-dimensional sense of the works.

4. "Stream of consciousness" was originally a psychological term, which was first put forward by william james, an American pragmatic philosopher and psychologist. He believes that human consciousness is not the connection of fragments, but in an eternal flow state, so it is called "stream of consciousness".

The English novelist May Sinclair introduced this term into literature. She uses "stream of consciousness" to refer to a novel written by Dorothy Richardson and others, which is different from traditional novels.