Stream of Consciousness, Descriptive Psychology, Stream of Consciousness

2. Hafsah Zafar
Lecturer, Department of English
Language and Literature
The University of Faisalabad

3. 
 Psychology
 Language
 Literature
 Connective Link
Different Terms Involved

4. 
 Authors give vent to their feelings through language
 Language becomes a source of expression of their
psychology in terms of literature
 Language contributes to the interpretation of the
thoughts in literature
 In this way language and literature are inter-
connected
Importance of Language

5. In Literature Via
Language

6. 
 Stream of Consciousness
 Descriptive Approach towards Society (Descriptive
Psychology)
 Inclusion of Past with reference to present
Involvement of Psychology

7. Stream of Consciousness
The thoughts of which we are aware of at the present
moment.

8. 
 Stream of consciousness is a style or technique of
writing that tries to capture the natural flow of a
character's extended thought process, often by
incorporating sensory impressions, incomplete ideas,
unusual syntax, and rough grammar.
Stream of Consciousness

9. 
Understanding Stream
of Consciousness
 Stream of consciousness
writing allows readers to
“listen in” on
a character's thoughts.
 It’s the use of LANGUAGE
in an unconventional way to
mimic the complicated
“streaming” nature of the
“conscious” thoughts as they
unfold in mind (thus "stream
of consciousness").

12. Descriptive Psychology
Describing or depicting the behaviors, feelings and
thoughts of the people in literature.

13. 
 Descriptive Psychology explicates the Person
Concept as the fundamental structure of the
behavioral sciences.
 The Person Concept is a single, coherent concept
which involves the interrelated concepts of
Individual Person, Behavior, Language and World.
 Descriptive Psychology establishes rules of
construction, composition and relationship that
articulate how these concepts are interconnected
Descriptive Psychology

14. 
 Under the umbrella of psychoanalysis Sigmund
Freud gave the idea of the 3 parts of human mind:
 Conscious
 Unconscious/Preconscious
 Subconscious
How it is Incorporated
in Writing?

16. 
Other Related Concepts
Id Ego Super Ego

17. 
 These aspects of psychology are involved in
literature and the authors make a skillful use
of LANGUAGE to describe the psychology of
the characters of literature.
Connective Link

18. Inclusion of Past
A life-line of the continuation of thought from past to
present.

19. 
 Past is included and represented in literature. This
concept is introduced by a psychoanalyst Carl
Gaustav Jung who was the student of Freud.
 He gave the concept of Psychic Remnants in the
psychological makeup of human beings.
 These are the inherited thoughts which we share
with our ancestors.
Inclusion of Past

20. 
 Psychic remnants are named as ‘Archetypes’ in Carl
Gustav Jung’s “Theory of Collective Unconscious”.
 These are the original, inherited patterns and images
repeating again and again in literature.
 For example: the superstitious concepts (black cat,
broken mirror)
Psychic Remnants

21. 
 Self
 Shadow
 Persona
 Scapegoat
 The Innocent
 Colors (Blue, Black,
Red, White)
Some Archetypes

22. 
 Past is merged with present and
beautifully interweaved in the fabric of
literature via LANGUAGE
 This makes a difference between an
Archetype and the Archetypal Image
Past Merged with Present

23. 
Work of
Literature
•Archetypes
•Archetypal Images
Archetypes
•References of past ideas
•Inhabited thoughts
Archetypal
Images
•Inclusion of Present
•Individual Interpretation
Difference Between Archetype
and Archetypal Image

24. 
 Any piece of literature shows the thoughts and
psychological flow in one way or the other.
 These psychological elements are the same as we
may also feel like occurring in our daily life.
Conclusion