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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Sunday, March 30, 2014

Oscar Wilde (post #2) and Quotations: How did he say enough clever things to fill whole books?

There are many books of quotations published. Many people are quoted. But there are relatively few people who have had books published that include only their quotations. One such person is Oscar Wilde.

Wilde is known for his numerous clever remarks. I wonder how he produced so many of them. Just like I have always wondered how novelists write novels. And since I found that novelists don’t create characters in any ordinary sense, I wonder if something extraordinary is involved when someone like Wilde produces such an extraordinary number of clever remarks.

Theoretically, it would be possible for a novelist to methodically and mechanistically create characters. But in this blog, I have quoted novelists about how they get their characters, and that is not how they do it. And since I found that multiple personality is involved, I now wonder if Wilde had one or more alternate personalities who were dedicated to seeing things in contrary or paradoxical ways.

When writers write things in quantity and quality that the average person couldn’t write, I suspect that their thought process might be different from the average person’s. What do you think?
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