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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Monday, August 1, 2022

Absent-mindedness: The Three Causes listed in Wikipedia and The Fourth Cause a symptom of Undiagnosed Multiple Personality


Wikipedia (1, 2)

“Absent-mindedness is where a person shows inattentive or forgetful behavior. It can have three different causes:

1. a low level of attention ("blanking" or "zoning out”)

2. intense attention to a single object of focus (hyperfocus) that makes a person oblivious to events around them [the absent-minded professor]

3. unwarranted distraction of attention from the object of focus by irrelevant thoughts or environmental events.


“The absent-minded professor is a common stereotype that professors get so obsessed with their research that they pay little attention to anything else…Albert Einstein was one scholar considered to be absent-minded.”


1. Wikipedia. “Absent-mindedness." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absent-mindedness

2. Wikipedia. “Absent-minded professor.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absent-minded_professor


Multiple-Personality

One of multiple personality’s two major symptoms, Memory Gaps, may cause inattentive and forgetful behavior, which may be misconstrued as absent-mindedness. For example, the alternate personality currently in control may be the one preoccupied with the professor’s studies, and so the professor will appear inattentive and forgetful regarding other matters.

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