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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Thursday, August 14, 2014

The Ten Most Viewed Posts on Great Novelists have Multiple Personality

1. Dickens, Multiple Personality, and Writers (June 19, 2013), the blog’s first post. The title of this post was the original title of the blog.
2. Plot-Driven vs. Character-Driven: Why “Character-Driven”? (Feb. 23, 2014)
3. Doris Lessing’s “To Room Nineteen”: Was it Suicide or Murder? (March 14, 2014)
4. Bakhtin says Dostoevsky created the “polyphonic” novel. But wouldn’t that require a “polyphonic” (multiple personality) mind? (March 8, 2014)
5. The Sound and the Fury: William Faulkner’s Rashomon, written by four or five alternate personalities (Feb. 10, 2014)
6. Multiple Personality (Dissociative Identity) Pervades Toni Morrison’s Novels (Oct. 23, 2013)
7. Stephen King’s and Toni Morrison’s Characters With Multiple Personality (Oct. 4, 2013)
8. Margaret Atwood on the Multiple Personality of Writers (Oct. 27, 2013)
9. Debbie Nathan’s Sybil Exposed: You Can’t Say a Case of Multiple Personality is Fake Unless You Know What the Real Thing Looks Like (April 18, 2014)
10. Ernest Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden: The Multiple Personality Mostly Missed by Twenty-Five Years of Literary Criticism (April 24, 2014)

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