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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Friday, September 1, 2023

Jules Verne: Captain Nemo character (2) as author’s tricky alternate personality


“Nemo” is a name derived from the Latin for “nobody.”  And “Nobody” is a favorite trick name used by persons with multiple personality: 


“When the therapist inquires as to who in the [person’s] system [of personalities] is responsible for some behavior, he or she will be told “No one.” So the therapist should be prepared to inquire whether there is a personality known as “No one,” “No name,” or “Nobody” (1, p. 117).


Search “Jules Verne” in this blog for past posts.


Comment: Jules Verne probably had multiple personality trait.


1.Frank W. Putnam MD. Diagnosis and Treatment of Multiple Personality Disorder. New York, The Guilford Press, 1989.

2.Wikipedia. “Captain Nemo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Nemo 

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