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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Friday, January 12, 2018

Puzzling President: Two reasons for saying something vulgar and racist in front of witnesses, including a member of the opposing party, and then denying it.

One possibility is that you believe most people, or at least your supporters, are vulgar and racist, so you are doing it to reinforce their support. You then claim not to have said it in order to baffle and annoy your opponents, and to increase your supporters’ admiration.

A second possibility is that you have a vulgar and racist alternate personality who was just speaking his mind, while the later denial was made by another of your personalities who would never say such things, and who either does not remember making those vulgar and racist remarks, or feels that it was the other one who said it, so he can honestly say that he, himself, never said it.

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