Consciousness in "Cyclops"

In this chapter, we see that Bloom’s consciousness is at least one of the central themes.

I read the chapter differently than did the other students in the class; I felt that Joyce’s racing tangents were meant as an attempt to articulate the the sub-conscious. I did not think that the passage about the seance was satiric. (However, I am interested in the arguments to the contrary.)

I found that the subject of consciousness was addressed in the chapter. By giving us multiple perspectives on the transpiration of events and the histories or interpretations of them, Joyce managed to demonstrate the possibilities of human consciousness.

The brutalities that confronted Bloom were committed in disregard of his human consciousness-- Questions of his intellectual oppression could be applicable.

I think that the Cyclops could represent a myopic perspective, and the inhibition of consciousness as demonstrated by a brute society.