Samaneh Soosapoor, Yousef Hadipour, Seyed Ebrahim Arman, Farhad Divsalar,
Volume 6, Issue 1 (1-2025)
Stream of consciousness is an innovative literary technique used frequently by modernist novelists and short story writers. It plays a significant role in reflecting the narrators’ and characters’ psychological and emotional status. Origami, the Japanese art of paper folding, is an ancient field of entertainment to make intricate designs. Nowadays, Origami has achieved new aspects and dimensions as contemporary artist draw on it in order to utilize it in conceptual and practical arts. Sanaa Shalan, a contemporary Jordanian writer, has rewritten the “Forgetfulness Realized It” story primarily based on the stream-of-consciousness technique to narrate the suffering and pain of living in contemporary societies. This story has thirty parts, each of which begins with a star origami. This study adopts a descriptive-analytical approach to examine the stream of consciousness in the origami at the beginning of each part based on William James’ ideas. It pinpoints how interior monologue, lyricism, association, psychological characteristics, soliloquy, and symbols can display the psychological problems of the characters in Shalan’s story.
