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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Sunday, November 20, 2016

Nobel Prize in Literature: Thirty-Five Winners and Contenders discussed in “Novelists use Normal Version of Multiple Personality,” literary psychology website.

Search names to read posts (some writers have one post, others have many).

Winners
1923 W. B. Yeats
1929 Thomas Mann
1934 Luigi Pirandello
1936 Eugene O’Neill
1949 William Faulkner
1954 Ernest Hemingway
1964 Jean-Paul Sartre
1976 Saul Bellow
1980 Czeslaw Milosz
1982 Gabriel García Márquez
1983 William Golding
1993 Toni Morrison
2005 Harold Pinter
2006 Orhan Pamuk
2007 Doris Lessing
2010 Mario Vargas Llosa
2014 Patrick Modiano
2016 Bob Dylan

Contenders
Jorge Luis Borges
Joseph Conrad
Elena Ferrante
Robert Frost
Graham Greene
Henry James
Franz Kafka
Haruki Murakami
Vladimir Nabokov
Joyce Carol Oates
Marcel Proust
Philip Roth
Salman Rushdie
August Strindberg
Leo Tolstoy
Mark Twain
Edith Wharton
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