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, February 14, 2019


“Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley (post 3): Is this novel meant to be a joke? And is its cloning an obvious metaphor for multiple personality?

Is Brave New World an obvious joke, beginning with the fact that children are produced in a “hatchery”? And what could be more absurdly funny than a society without mothers, in which the word “mother” is a horrible profanity?

But since Huxley’s mother died of cancer when he was a child, this novel may be his revenge against mothers and motherhood, because his mother abandoned him.

And what this novel describes as its “caste” system, with the lowest class colored black, is not a funny new world, but the old classism and racism.

Moreover, since cloning is an obvious metaphor for multiple personality, is any further analysis required? I will read on, anyway.
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