Samuel Beckett’s later works, such as 'The Unnamable', push stream of consciousness to an extreme by:
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Correct answer: Reducing it to a disembodied voice obsessively questioning its own existence
Beckett strips away the 'ego' and the 'world,' leaving only a stream of words. This explores the limits of language and the difficulty of finding a stable 'self' within the flow of thought.
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