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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Saturday, January 20, 2018

“The Woman in the Window” by A. J. Finn (pseudonym for Daniel Mallory): Why, simultaneously, publish under pseudonym and publicize the author’s real name?

This new No. 1 bestseller is being publicized with articles that emphasize the author’s real name—for example: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/books/aj-finn-the-woman-in-the-window-daniel-mallory.html—and, yes, it is amusing to read how the author submitted his manuscript under a pseudonym to the publisher for whom he worked as an editor.

But since the author’s real name is being widely publicized, why is the book being published under the pseudonym? The book could have been published under the author’s real name, while publicity featured the same amusing story about how the manuscript had been submitted under a pseudonym.

My guess is that the book was mostly written by an alternate personality of Daniel Mallory, and that Daniel Mallory feels he would be lying to claim the credit.

Search “pseudonyms” for previous discussions of this recurring topic.
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