Either What I Say Can’t Be True—about Novelists, Creative Writing, Psychiatry, and Multiple Personality—Or It Has Been Known Since Plato and Euripides

The foremost experts in multiple personality—those psychiatrists and psychologists who have specialized in the study and treatment of multiple personality, and have published books about it—do not recognize what I call “normal multiple personality” in novelists or anyone else. And if what I say is true, how could they have missed it?

Many of the novelists and novels discussed in this blog have been studied by groups and networks of eminent scholars. Indeed, much of this blog consists of quotations from their essays and books. So how can I come along and say that multiple personality is involved, if they don’t agree and are not convinced?

But suppose my ideas were to catch on and become popular. I would get credit for only a few minutes. Then everyone would remember all the psychologists, psychiatrists, philosophers, and fiction writers who have been saying the same things—or at least things consistent with what I've been saying—since antiquity (search “Plato and Euripides,” for my post of June 28, 2014).