William James and the Constituents of the Self William James, brother of novelist Henry James and diarist Alice James, was a leading 19th century philosopher and one of the founders of modern psychology. In his book The Principles of Psychology (1890), a publication that is often credited with making the idea of “stream of consciousness” … Continue reading Novella-in-Flash Writing Prompt #21 – Going Further with Character – via William James’s Theory of Identity