“The Pessoa Syndrome” (2013) by Katia Mitova

This is a link to a complete article by Professor Mitova, for whom I gave a link to only an abstract back in 2016 (see below). In the abstract below, her “multiple personality order” (not disorder) is similar to my “multiple personality trait” (not disorder), which I previously called "normal multiple personality."

Added Dec. 29: I have never met Mitova, but she is both a scholar and a poet. Her scholarship is evident. Her being a poet means that her approach to this subject may reflect inside knowledge. So I recommend the following single link:

https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/36819001/Mitova_Pessoa_Syndrome_2013.pdf?1425253218=&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DThe_Pessoa_Syndrome.pdf&Expires=1611882698&Signature=bEt0K~VcYDMxR3oHCmP-M~Fj5z8DTS0aDesDiv4sAAtydu0QXo9yWb7L4GQZuY-3RqLmv7TgVWVcOF57VT05sDjrSy1akOu7B6~9wcFq03EyX24lZ5O9S6M~PkyC78voivftzCFrgR4Vc1InT-tAlZKhDlvGK9eJ55xbyYFGxbgpNP1lB3R8rAtJ2QX9l2iSWlCqcuizquJ73glakX80aPh6ht1yBWtvEBQLRw31J7AnIRaQD9ipx1E4~AedIxNhUr0jyrKESwvJWz0c2IU3JgwViLzxF30aQMpz81Zolx4KBQz8O888Bc8bs3uFNMNCr7qVGKyjSibxhqI61YyYyg__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA

Note: The above link may periodically expire. You may find a currently active link by searching the essay on Google Scholar.

August 13, 2016

Professors of Literature who understand importance of Multiple Personality in Literary Criticism: Jeremy Hawthorn, Katia Mitova, Heike Schwarz.

We may not agree on everything, but I honor and commend their psychiatric literacy, and hope that other scholars follow their example.

Jeremy Hawthorn. Multiple Personality and the Disintegration of Literary Character: From Oliver Goldsmith to Sylvia Plath. New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1983.

Katia Mitova. “Artistic Creativity as a ‘Multiple Personality Order’: The Case of Fernando Pessoa.” https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9781848882034/BP000016.xml

Heike Schwarz. Beware of the Other Side(s): Multiple Personality Disorder and Dissociative Identity Disorder in American Fiction. Transcript-Verlag, 2013.