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, November 2, 2015

J. K. Rowling explains pseudonym: As a child, she had a personality Ella Galbraith. Rowling’s male personality has same surname. But what is their relationship?

At her Robert Galbraith website, J. K. Rowling explains: “…I rather enjoy having another persona…my inner bloke!…[His surname] Galbraith came about for a slightly odd reason. When I was a child, I really wanted to be called ‘Ella Galbraith’, and I’ve no idea why. I don’t even know how I knew that the surname existed, because I can’t remember ever meeting anyone with it.”

Judging by what Rowling says, she does not know what the relationship is between Ella and Robert, or anything else about her Ella personality. Indeed, does Rowling, herself, actually remember wanting to be called “Ella Galbraith”? Or does she have amnesia for Ella, and knows about her only as a family story that she has been told?

In any case, Rowling’s explanation is consistent with my theory: Most novelists have a normal version of multiple personality, and their pseudonyms are often the names of alternate personalities who want to publish.
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