抄録
We often believe that a stream-of-consciousness-novel shows us the continuity of impressions and thoughts in the human mind as they really are. With its unique style, interior monologue and free indirect speech, our mind seems to be examined perfectly not being intervened. But Colin MacCabe says that Ulysess by James Joyce, known as the most famous stream-of-consciousness-novel, never shows such any stable descriptions as the perfect continuity of impressions and thoughts. He compares Joyce's texts to Lacanian psycoanalysis in terms of their ideas that no signifiers connect with specific signifieds. To examine his comments about Joyce's texts, we should examine unique styles in a stream-of-consciousness-novel; interior monologue and free indirect speech.
Thanks to some critics or grammarians, for example, Robert Humphrey, we can look into these styles.: they show us the human mind as it really is, or not. At last, we are to conclude that they describe not only our thoughts but also something being other for themselves. Interior monologue and free indirect speech always make readers to feel beings of ‘others’.
In the end, something running away from Joyce's texts are to be compared to Lacanian unconscious, as MacCabe says. Interior monologue and free indirect speech are nothing but Lacanian psychoanalytical styles.
