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William James, The Principles of Psychology. New York, 1904. The term "stream of consciousness" The term "stream of consciousness" was coined by William James in his attempt to describe the flow of pre-verbal thought: “Consciousness, then, does not appear to itself chopped into bits. Such words as "chain" or "train" do not describe it fitly as it presents itself in the first instance. It is nothing jointed; it flows. A "river" or a "stream" are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let us call it the stream of thought, of consciousness, or of subjective life. According to James, thought is personal, changing, continuous, cognitive, and selective. By its nature, a thought cannot be analyzed into discrete, separate, distinct parts: