What's the original philosophycal meaning of the famous Joyce's "Stream of Consciousness"?

Question

A Sicilian question to ... nice English people! I'm waiting for your answers and your opinions, thank you
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thank you so much Faith H

It could be this, thanks Octavia Poppadom

thanks, SouthPaw, for many details you have given me

Answer 1

The premise behind is as Faith quite rightly said, it is a literary, specifically narrative device, which is intended to represent the actual way we think in literary form.
It is intended to show the fluidity and fragmented nature of thought and how it problematizes the possibility of 'mimetic completeness'.

It's key exponents were, as has been said, Modernist writers such as James, Woolf and Joyce in particular. Joyce's novel 'Finnegan's Wake' is the most exemplary instance of S.O.C in his work. Samuel Beckett's novels are also excellent examples of S.O.C.

In terms of the intentions behind it I would argue that it was an attempt by modernists to subvert the artistic and philosophical idea of absolute, pure objectivity. Stream of consciousness presents us with an incomplete and fragmented perspective of A world, a subjective experience of THE world. It is a form that is, in its way, supposed to be a more honest form of literary expression.


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Answer 2

stream of consciousness is a literary device which represents how the brain does not work in any real linear fashion. It is a style pioneered by the likes of Woolf, James, Joyce and so on. One of the most famous examples is Mrs Dalloway - a text devoid many a times of punctuation and so on.
I don't really know any other "stream of consciousness"

Edit - You're welcome Klaftio!

Answer 3

It could be the continuity of consciousness which continues from one life to the next.