Mikhail Bakhtin is the closest that standard literary theory comes to addressing multiple consciousness and multiple personality

In a couple of previous posts, I cited Mikhail Bakhtin on Dostoevsky. You can tell that Bakhtin discusses issues relevant to multiple personality by just looking at the index of his book, Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics, where you find: “Double (split personality)” and his literary concept about how Dostoevsky was able to write about that, “multi-voicedness” or “polyphony.”

Bakhtin is proposing the theory—without knowing that he is proposing the theory—that split personality is found in literature, because novelists have multiple personality (which is Multiple Identity Literary Theory, the theory of this blog). Bakhtin talks about split personality (an informal term for multiple personality) without actually relating it to multiple personality, per se.

So, I am hereby amending my last post on twenty textbooks of literary theory. They may not discuss the theme of the double directly, but the issue is raised indirectly if they mention Mikhail Bakhtin, which they often do.