A sweeping foundational treatise on habit, emotion, will, and the ceaseless stream of consciousness.
Books that mention Principles of Psychology (4)
The Alienist by Caleb Carr: “for in the vicissitudes of our outer experience we are constantly liable to meet the same thing in the midst of differing companions. William James, The Principles of Psychology”
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace: “he chanced to read it in a huge large-print edition he'd found behind a bookshelf along the north wall of the Ennet living room of something called The Principles of Psychology with The Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion, by William James (obviously)...”
East of Eden by John Steinbeck: “It's called The Principles of Psychology and it's by an Eastern man named William James.”
An Inquiry into the Good by Nishida Kitarō: “Just as a geometer imagines one triangle and uses it to stand for all triangles, the representative element of a concept is, when present, only a kind of feeling (James, The Principles of Psychology, Vol. I, Chap. VII). [auto-translated]”