Good Afternoon Friends,

Let me say another quick word about Multiple Personality before moving on to something else. Suppose someone presented a video tape to you which documented your life for one year. If any one of you or I really wanted to: you could study that tape and then pick out, isolate, Balkanize, if you will, and individuate (I've just invented the word 'individuate,' I think) specific bodies of accretions on your personality, cohering them into separate "personalities." We all have different modes or ways of being in different circumstances, depending on our mood, with different people, in different venues, and also depending on other things, Jupiter's position in Saturn (just kidding).

The only difference, in my view, is that MPDs individuate these bodies of accretions on their personality, spontaneously as a result of some kind of trauma. The Self seeks relief through oblivion - something like that. Next, a word about bigamy.

wingedcentaur