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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Thursday, August 24, 2017

New York Times says “Different Day…Completely Different Trump…Teleprompter Trump and Unplugged Trump…Split Speaking Personality is Not New”

“President Trump reverted to his script as commander in chief here on Wednesday…It was a day-and-night contrast to Mr. Trump’s performance Tuesday…But such contrasts have become a recurring motif of this presidency: Mr. Trump has toggled between Teleprompter Trump and Unplugged Trump…The split speaking personality is not new” (1).

Unfortunately, articles like the above leave the impression that speeches Trump reads from the teleprompter are imposed on him against his will. But doesn’t he read the speeches in advance, not only to practice them, but to vet them? Doesn’t he take out anything he does not like and add anything he wants to say?

If so, then both teleprompter speeches and extemporaneous speeches have been approved by Trump. Their inconsistencies and contradictions may imply a disagreement between alternate personalities.

1. Mark Landler. “Different Day, Different Audience, and a Completely Different Trump.” New York Times, Aug. 23, 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/23/us/politics/trump-speech-reno-phoenix.html?mcubz=0
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