Interiority
Interiority refers to the inner life of a conscious subject—the thoughts, feelings, beliefs, memories, and motivations that constitute personal subjectivity. It denotes the realm of mental phenomena that are not directly observable by others and thus require interpretation through behavior, speech, or textual representation. In philosophy and phenomenology, interiority is closely tied to questions about consciousness, selfhood, and the accessibility of inner experience, often in dialogue or tension with exteriority—the external world and others' perceptions.
In literature and narrative theory, interiority is a central concern of how writers reveal a character's inner
Interiority also appears in psychology, where introspection and the study of mental states concern the inner
Interiority thus sits at the intersection of phenomenology of experience and cultural representations of subjectivity.