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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Sunday, November 12, 2017

Nobel Prize in Literature: Twenty-Five Winners Discussed in Literary Psychology Blog on Writers With Signs of Normal Version of Multiple Personality.

To see the posts on these writers, search their names in this blog.

1907—Rudyard Kipling, United Kingdom
1923—William Butler Yeats, United Kingdom
1929—Thomas Mann, Germany
1934—Luigi Pirandello, Italy
1936—Eugene O’Neill, United States
1948—T. S. Eliot, United Kingdom
1949—William Faulkner, United States
1954—Ernest Hemingway, United States
1964—Jean-Paul Sartre, France
1973—Patrick White, Australia
1976—Saul Bellow, United States
1980—Czeslaw Milosz, Poland
1982—Gabriel García Márquez, Colombia
1983—William Golding, United Kingdom
1993—Toni Morrison, United States
1998—José Saramago, Portugal
2001—V. S. Naipaul, United Kingdom
2003—J. M. Coetzee, South Africa
2005—Harold Pinter, United Kingdom
2006—Orhan Pamuk, Turkey
2007—Doris Lessing, United Kingdom
2010—Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru
2014—Patrick Modiano, France
2016—Bob Dylan, United States
2017—Kasuo Ishiguro, United Kingdom (born Japan)

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