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, April 21, 2014

Ernest Hemingway’s Twenty Nicknames and Two Pseudonyms: Were Any of Them The Names of Alternate Personalities?

I haven’t found that anyone has attached much importance to Hemingway’s nicknames and pseudonyms. So when I have found them mentioned, mostly online, I don’t have full confidence in their scholarship and accuracy.

Some of the names appear to have been applied not only to Hemingway, but to other people, too. Some may have been applied by someone, not acknowledged by Hemingway, and have no psychological significance.

And it may be that many people who have had multiple marriages, have been many places, and have known many people will accumulate this many nicknames. I don’t know.

Nevertheless, it strikes me as a large number of nicknames for one person to have, unless the person has multiple personality, in which case, that number of personalities would not be unusual.

Nicknames: Papa, Oinbones, Hemingstein, Champ, Ernestoic, Tattie, Tiny, Wax Puppy, Ernie, Hem, Hemmy, Wemedge, Nesto, Porthos, Butch, The Old Brute, Ernestino, Bumby, Old Master, Mahatma.

Pen Names: Peter Jackson, John Hadley

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