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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Saturday, March 11, 2017

“Glad Tidings About the Three Faces of Donald Trump” by New York Times columnist Gail Collins compares Trump to famous case of multiple personality.

“There are three basic variations. Reasonable Chatting Trump is pleasant but useless. Unscripted Trump is pretty close to nuts. And then there’s the Somewhat Normal Republican Trump, who we enjoy calling SNORT” (1).

Collins had previously written about the “three Donald Trumps” (2).

But, now, with “the three faces” of Trump, she is comparing Trump to the famous case of multiple personality, “The Three Faces of Eve” (3, 4, 5).

1. Gail Collins. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/10/opinion/glad-tidings-about-the-three-faces-of-donald-trump.html?_r=0
2. Gail Collins. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/02/opinion/the-three-donald-trumps-speak.html
3. Thigpen, C.H. & Cleckley, H. (1954) A case of multiple personality. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 49, 135-51. Synopsis: http://www.holah.karoo.net/thigpen.htm
4. Thigpen, Corbett H. & Cleckley, Hervey M. The Three Faces of Eve. New York, McGraw Hill, 1957.
5. Wikipedia. “The Three Faces of Eve” (1957 film). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Faces_of_Eve
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