“Donald Trump, Accidental Buddhist” by Ben Dolnick in New York Times cites Trump’s third-person self-reference, but forgets it in Charles Dickens.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/07/opinion/sunday/trump-narcisit-third-person-buddhism.html

In multiple personality, it is common for one personality to speak of another personality in the third person.

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Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens assumed that his readers would infer multiple personality from third-person self-reference, as I discussed in the very first post in this blog on Charles Dickens.

In Dickens’s plan for The Mystery of Edwin Drood, the multiple personality of John Jasper, the murderer, was to have been revealed when Jasper, in his confession, referred to himself in the third person.