“Kim” (post 3) by Rudyard Kipling (post 6): Kipling and Kim have “divided sense of self” and “many selves,” but their multiple personality is unacknowledged. 

“The major problems and contradictions in the novel are informed and shaped by Kipling’s divided sense of self…The inner quest, the search for an identity (“Who is Kim—Kim—Kim?”), suggests the possibility of self-discovery and integration of his many selves…” (1, p. 442).

However, at the end of the novel, Kipling remains a “Two-Sided Man” (title of the Kipling poem that Kipling quotes at the beginning of Chapter 8) and Kim remains a two-sided boy: on one side, Kim is the disciple of a holy man; on his other side, he is a government spy.

If a teenager, concurrently, is both the disciple of a holy lama and a government spy, and does both, not out of coercion, but sincerely and with dedication, that behavior is so self-contradictory as to suggest multiple personality. (Search “self-contradiction” for past posts.)

1. Zohreh T. Sullivan. “What Happens at the End of Kim?” in Norton Critical Edition of Rudyard Kipling’s Kim [1901]. New York, WW Norton, 2002.