Margaret Atwood, Henry James, and August Strindberg use different terms, but all say that fiction writers have multiple personality

In my post on Margaret Atwood and multiple personality, I quote her as saying that she and most fiction writers have two personalities, one that does the living (which I suppose would include interviews, letters, and other nonfiction) and one that does the creative writing.

In my post on Henry James and the host personality, I discuss his short story “The Private Life,” which is about a writer who has one personality who socializes (the host personality), while another personality is back in his apartment, busy writing.

In my last post on August Strindberg’s Inferno, I quote one of his biographers as saying how Strindberg spoke of having an “exoteric” personality (which would correspond to Atwood’s personality who does the living; and to the host personality) and an “esoteric” personality who delves into what James might mean by “the madness of art.”