Concetti Chiave
- The interior monologue presents an immediate verbal expression of thoughts, unlike soliloquies and dramatic monologues which follow conventional syntax.
- It operates on two narrative levels: one external and one internal to the character's mind, lacking chronological order and formal logical structure.
- This technique captures the unspoken mental activity before it is organized into speech, often confused with but distinct from the stream of consciousness.
- The stream of consciousness, coined by William James, describes a continuous flow of thoughts, where past and future intermingle, denying the present.
- Writers like James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust used these techniques to explore the depths of human consciousness and subjective experiences.
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Distinzione tra monologo interiore e flusso di coscienza
It is a verbal expression of a psychic phenomenon and it is immediate; this distinguishes it from both the soliloquy and the dramatic monologue, where conventional syntax is respected. It is from introductory expressions like "he thought, he remebered, he said". There are two levels of narration: one external to the character's mind, the other internal. It lacks chronological order and the presence of subjective time. It disregards the rules of punctuation and it lacks formal logical order. It is used in a novel to represent the unspoken activity of the mind before it is ordered in speech. Sometimes interior monologue is confused with the stream of consciousness, but they are different.
Contributi di psicologi e filosofi
American psychologist William James coined the phrase "Stream of consciousness" to define the continuous flow of thoughts and sensations that chracterize the human mind. As a consequence, the present doesn't exist and the only reality is the individual consciousness where past and future flow into each other. Sigmund Freud discovered the power of the unconcious and led to analyse consciousness more deeply. The French philosopher Henri Bergson distinguished between the mathematical time of science (each minute equals the other) and the time of the mind which changes from one person to another. For example, the time necessary to boil some water is the scientific time, but the time that person waits for the water to boil is the time of spiritual experience; he called this second time "duration".
Scrittori e romanzieri che utilizzano la tecnica
The writers who used this technique were Henry James, James Joyce, William Faulkner, John Dos Passos, J. D. Salinger, Joseph Conrad and Robert Louis Stevenson; the novelist who used this technique were Marcel Proust, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf.
Domande da interrogazione
- Qual è la differenza principale tra monologo interiore e flusso di coscienza?
- Quali contributi hanno dato psicologi e filosofi alla comprensione del flusso di coscienza?
- Quali scrittori e romanzieri hanno utilizzato la tecnica del flusso di coscienza?
Il monologo interiore è un'espressione verbale immediata di un fenomeno psichico, priva di ordine cronologico e regole di punteggiatura, mentre il flusso di coscienza è un concetto più ampio che include il continuo flusso di pensieri e sensazioni.
William James ha coniato il termine "flusso di coscienza", Sigmund Freud ha esplorato l'inconscio, e Henri Bergson ha distinto tra il tempo matematico e il tempo della mente, definendo quest'ultimo come "durata".
Tra gli scrittori che hanno utilizzato questa tecnica ci sono Henry James, James Joyce, William Faulkner, mentre tra i romanzieri ci sono Marcel Proust, Dorothy Richardson e Virginia Woolf.
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