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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Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Novelist’s new awareness of "parts”—alternate personalities of multiple personality trait—is manifest in new wish for plural pronouns

“Yahya Bas, the hero of Guy Gunaratne’s new novel, “Mister, Mister,” is a tricky character to pin down. Is he an idiot, poet, jihadist or all of these at once?

“As Gunaratne answered this question and found Yahya’s voice, the author’s own self-conception evolved. ‘This book fundamentally changed how I think about my own identity,’ Gunaratne, who was born in Britain to Sri Lankan parents, said during a recent interview in central London. ‘This self-inquiry, which comes with an extended period of writing, led me to assert parts of myself that had gone unaffirmed.’ Now, Gunaratne identifies as nonbinary, and uses they/them pronouns” (1).

Comment: Many people with multiple personality have alternate personalities of more than one gender, and so are nonbinary.

1.Tobias Grey. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/07/books/mister-mister-guy-gunaratne.html 

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