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, February 5, 2022

A Reader of Twenty of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher Novels Has Begun The New Reacher TV Series on Amazon, And Is Loving It, Because It Is So Like The Novels


She has recently read my past posts on Lee Child and Jack Reacher, which she had never read before due to her concern that reading things about novels could spoil the fun.


She is loving the TV series, but has noticed something about Jack Reacher she had not noticed before: She gets the feeling that he is sometimes hearing voices that prompt his actions.


When reading the novels, she had rationalized his voices as merely talking to himself, since sane characters don’t hear voices.  But after reading my posts, she suspects he really is hearing voices, which suggests another dimension to his character: He may have multiple personality trait, in which a sane person may be advised by the voices of his alternate personalities.

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