Fernando Pessoa (post 3): If Pessoa truly had multiple personality, with many alternate personalities, why aren’t any of them nameless?
At the end of post 2, I questioned whether Pessoa truly had multiple personality, because the editor/translator Richard Zenith had written that the alternate personalities were sometimes inconsistent, which would be atypical.
What else strikes me when I look at the Pessoa entry in Wikipedia is that he had so many alternate personalities and none of them is nameless: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Pessoa
In many past posts, I have repeatedly said that namelessness of alternate personalities is common in multiple personality. The reason is that most alternate personalities spend most of their time inside, behind-the-scenes, with a named, host personality out front. And there are usually some who don’t need names, because they rarely come out, or they come out only when the person is alone, or they always come out incognito. And even when they do have a name, they may not like to reveal it, because they feel it gives people too much power over them. Multiple personality is designed to keep itself secret.
Either my clinical experience with multiple personality is too limited to encompass a case like Pessoa’s, or the list of his alternate personalities is incomplete, or his diagnosis of multiple personality is invalid.
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