| FORM: | ARTICLE |
| Author: | Natsoulas, Thomas |
| Affiliation: | U California, Davis, USA |
| Title: | The stream of consciousness: I. William James’s pulses. |
| Source: | Imagination, Cognition & Personality, 1992-1993. 12 (1): p.3-21 |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Thesaurus terms: Conscious (Personality Factor) Consciousness States James (William) |
| Added Keywords: | W. James’s conception of stream of consciousness |
| Classification Code: | Consciousness States (2380) |
| Population Terms: Human | |
| Abstract: | Argues that W. James’s (1890) famous stream of consciousness, as he addressed it inThe Principles of Psychology,is not after all analogous to a stream or river of water, but rather it consists of a succession of discrete instances or states of consciousness. Already in 1890, James had implicitly arrived at his later explicit conception of consciousness as made up of individual “drops” or “pulses.” A case is made for the discrete structure of consciousness, according to James inThe Principles,by discussing 2 main topics: (1) the relation that James postulated between consciousness and the underlying brain process; and (2) his understanding of how we are aware directly of our own instances of consciousness. ((c) 1999 APA/PsycINFO, all rights reserved) |