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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Monday, July 10, 2017

In New York Times, Matthew Zapruder, author of “Why Poetry,” emphasizes an “intuitive dream-state” as “the special reward” of writing and reading poems.

Now looking at The New York Times online, having just discussed the waking dream-state of Scarlett O’Hara, I come upon an essay by a poet on poetry, which says this about waking dream-states and poetry:

“Coming upon a word, having it rise up out of the preconscious, intuitive dream-state and into the poem…is the special reward of being a poet, and a reader of poetry” (1).

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/10/books/review/understanding-poetry-is-more-straightforward-than-you-think.html

Apparently, poets enjoy dreamlike, altered states of consciousness, like Scarlett O’Hara, novelists, and people with multiple personality.

For further discussion of poets in this blog, search Dickinson, Bob Dylan, T. S. Eliot, Frost, Keats, Wordsworth, and Yeats.
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