How gender, solitude, and posture influence the stream of consciousness

Kenneth S. Pope

pp. 259-299

in: Kenneth S. Pope, Jerome L. Singer (eds), The stream of consciousness, Berlin, Springer, 1978

Abstract

What sources contribute to our knowledge of normal, ongoing consciousness? The fine arts present numerous representations of what William James (1890/1950) termed "the stream of thought." James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Heller, Sergei Eisenstein, and Alain Resnais are but a few who have portrayed the ever-changing constellation of memories, sense-data, anticipations, fantasies, rational thoughts, and images that constitute our moment-to-moment awareness as we go about our lives.

Cited authors

James William

Woolf Virginia

Joyce James

Proust Marcel

Resnais Alain