BASIC CONCEPTS

— When novelists claim they do not invent it, but hear voices and find stories in their head, they are neither joking nor crazy.

— When characters, narrators, or muses have minds of their own and occasionally take over, they are alternate personalities.

— Alternate personalities and memory gaps, but no significant distress or dysfunction, is a normal version of multiple personality.

— normal Multiple Personality Trait (MPT) (core of Multiple Identity Literary Theory), not clinical Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD)

— The normal version of multiple personality is an asset in fiction writing when some alternate personalities are storytellers.

— Multiple personality originates when imaginative children with normal brains have unassuaged trauma as victim or witness.

— Psychiatrists, whose standard mental status exam fails to ask about memory gaps, think they never see multiple personality.

— They need the clue of memory gaps, because alternate personalities don’t acknowledge their presence until their cover is blown.

— In novels, most multiple personality, per se, is unnoticed, unintentional, and reflects the author’s view of ordinary psychology.

— Multiple personality means one person who has more than one identity and memory bank, not psychosis or possession.

— Euphemisms for alternate personalities include parts, pseudonyms, alter egos, doubles, double consciousness, voice or voices.

— Multiple personality trait: 90% of fiction writers; possibly 30% of public.

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Monday, December 16, 2013

Multiple Identity Literary Theory is Antithetical To and Totally Rejects Freud’s or Lacan’s Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Literary Theory

Is the point of view presented in this blog found in any currently established literary theory? To find out, I bought Gregory Castle’s The Literary Theory Handbook (Wiley Blackwell, 2013), which is comprehensive and up-to-date.

I read the chapter on Psychoanalysis and could agree with nothing in it—from Freud to Lacan and others—nothing.

In the chapter on Trauma Studies, it is mentioned, in passing, that “trauma leads, as many psychologists attest, to dissociative personality disorders [i.e., multiple personality],” but no further mention of multiple personality follows.

I think that there is an automatic tendency to think that the views of a psychiatrist must be related to Freud, Lacan, etc. But my views do not agree with theirs, and, in essential ways, our views are antithetical (such as their belief in the unconscious, which I reject, in favor of the multiple, dissociated consciousness of multiple personalities).

It is a distinction with a real difference.
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