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

Hillary Rodham Clinton, unlike Trump, often has a bare neck, an appearance of vulnerability, which can be powerful, but only with gentlemen.

In my last post, I commented on Trump’s neckties, and how they secure his collar to protect his neck. In contrast, Hillary, like many women, often goes around with her neck exposed, a blatant appearance of vulnerability. 

Women expose their necks because it works for them, at least with gentlemen, here defined as men who do not attack the weak and vulnerable. But is Trump a gentleman or a predator? Predators have contempt for the weak and vulnerable.

However, since Trump may have more than one personality, he may be both a gentleman and a predator, and I can’t say which style would work best with him, a bare or a covered neck. So I guess the best way for Hillary to dress when debating Trump would be whatever way gives her the most confidence.

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