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    Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is widely considered a landmark psychological novel for its exhaustive exploration of memory, perception, and subjective experience.

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    Samuel Richardson's Pamela, published in 1740, is often regarded as an early precursor to the psychological novel for its intense focus on the protagonist's inner emotional world.

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    Stream of consciousness, a narrative technique closely associated with the psychological novel, was prominently used by Virginia Woolf and James Joyce in the early twentieth century.

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    Dostoevsky's novels, including Crime and Punishment, are frequently cited as foundational works of the psychological novel genre.

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    The psychological novel focuses on the inner life, motivations, and mental states of characters rather than primarily on external plot events.

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