stream of consciousness
noun
1- Psychology a 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).【心理】意识流（威廉·詹姆斯在《心理学原理》[1890]中首次使用该术语）。
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- 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.（文学上的）意识流。