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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Friday, November 6, 2015

Multiple Personality and Names: Robert Galbraith novels say the author’s name is a pseudonym for J. K. Rowling, but J. K. Rowling is itself a pseudonym.

The usual rationalization for “J. K. Rowling” is that the name of a female author on the Harry Potter books would have hurt sales to boys. But why wasn't the author’s real name put on the books after boys learned that a woman wrote the books and were not deterred from buying them? And why are the “Robert Galbraith” books still published under that pseudonym even though everyone knows, and the books themselves disclose, that they were really written by “J. K. Rowling.” And why do the Galbraith books say that they were really written by “J. K. Rowling,” when that is only another pseudonym, and not the author’s real name, which is Joanne (no middle name) Rowling?

Why has Joanne Rowling not wanted her own name on her own books, even after everyone knows that she wrote them?

My guess is that she is just being honest: “Joanne Rowling” is only one of a number of personalities, and not one who writes books. So the “Joanne Rowling” personality, being honest, does not claim authorship.
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