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, September 23, 2016

Donald Trump’s Long Neckties are not Symbols of Impotence. Long Neckties are not Phallic Symbols. They tie the collar around the neck.

The two most noticeable features of Trump’s appearance are his changing, colorful hair and his often excessively long neckties. I don’t know why he wears such long neckties. Perhaps he thinks they are phallic symbols.

The idea that a long necktie is a phallic symbol is one of the silliest Freudian interpretations, for if the long necktie, which hangs limply, were a phallic symbol, it would symbolize impotence.

The key to understanding the necktie is its name, “necktie”: Its purpose is to tie something around the neck (a collar).

Why would anyone want to secure a collar around the neck? Because the neck, both in fact and symbolically, represents vulnerability, as in the expression “sticking your neck out.” It you want to kill someone, the neck is a prime target. And so anything that covers the neck will help protect the person and decrease the appearance of vulnerability.

My argument is supported, not disproved, by the slave collar, for a collar that someone else has imposed on you shows that they have taken control of you at your most vulnerable point, your neck.
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