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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Wednesday, June 7, 2017

President Trump is said to watch a lot of television for someone with all his responsibilities: Does he watch TV to fill in multiple-personality memory gaps?

Trump’s love for watching TV has even earned a New Yorker cartoon: http://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon-022217-trump-watching-tv

Common explanations for his inordinate amount of TV-watching include 1. that he doesn’t read books or make much use of a computer, so he watches TV for information, 2. that he views life as a “reality-TV show,” 3. that he is guided by how people on TV react to issues, and 4. that when people discuss him and his policies, he learns who are his enemies and friends, and also gets narcissistic gratification.

I would like to add speculation that he may watch TV to find out what he and others have done and said, to fill in multiple-personality memory gaps.
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