KnowraPsychological realismLinked fromLinked fromThe 39 pages that link to Psychological realism, each with the reason it gives.All 39Related 23Narrower topic 8Compared with 8Nouveau romanCompared with: Nouveau roman writers resisted using interior psychology to explain every action or object.Brechtian theatreCompared with: Brechtian theatre resists treating realistic psychology as a transparent account of social life.Dream narrativeCompared with: Dream narratives can represent inner life while dispensing with psychological continuity and plausible causation.Dream imageryCompared with: Dreamlike images can break the continuity and plausibility that psychological realism usually maintains.Surrealist cinemaCompared with: Surrealist cinema often refuses the psychologically coherent explanations this mode expects.The Diary of a MadmanCompared with: A realistic production can frame the clerk’s breakdown differently from a grotesque or expressionist staging.Nicolas RoegCompared with: Roeg’s characters can remain opaque, with meaning emerging from images rather than explanatory psychology.Robert PingetCompared with: Pinget’s elusive voices resist the stable characterization this mode typically offers.