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, June 17, 2016

Nora Roberts (post 2): In The New Yorker profile, was she joking when she said that J.D. Robb was “offended” by Nora’s popularity, and that J.D. is “a bitch”?

If it were a joke, it would have been a multiple personality joke, since its humor would have been based on talking about J.D. Robb as though she were a separate person, who could be envious of Nora and bitchy about it.

And if you think it was a joke, you would have to explain why Nora Roberts would be making jokes about J.D. Robb. Is Nora Roberts a humorist? And of all kinds of humor, why would she be making multiple personality jokes that disparage her very successful pseudonym?

Judge for yourself what type of person she is in interviews:
http://video.mpt.tv/video/2312264480/

What I see is neither Nora Roberts, the writer, nor J.D. Robb, the writer, nor a humorist, but a charming host personality (search “host personality” in this blog), whose job it is to socialize and do interviews.  At least, that is my initial impression. What’s yours?

However, the question arises as to why the host personality would have called J.D. a bitch (since it the host personality’s job to be nice). I would guess that it was not the host personality who called J.D. a bitch, but a rival of J.D., who took over temporarily to add her two cents.
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