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, January 20, 2017

Is “The Forgotten Man” just a political slogan used for many years by both parties, or is it one of Donald J. Trump’s alternate personalities (post 17)?

President Trump has used the phrase “the forgotten man” in his campaign speeches and again, today, in his inaugural. It is usually discussed as an old political slogan (1).

But considering the fact that Trump has put his own name on every building and place that he can—becoming president, he has put his name on the whole country—perhaps he, in his mind, is the forgotten man.

How could this be? He knows that he is well known. But perhaps he has an alternate personality who says to Trump, “You’re famous, but that’s you, not me.” Donald replies, “You’re Trump, too.” But the alternate personality, who has his own identity, does not see himself as Trump, and cannot be convinced.

Well, couldn’t Trump publicize the name of his alternate personality, the way that writers publish books under the name of their alternate personality’s pseudonym? Apparently, this alternate personality does not have a name. Some alternate personalities don’t.

1. Wikipedia. “Forgotten man.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgotten_man
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