Musings upon multiplicity

[kiya]

Last night, I wrote to netdancer, who I know from alt.callahans, asking about resources for multiplicity that didn't pathologize.

I got a few website links.

So I've been reading them.

I could almost have written this. Well, aside from the pronouns. I even have a period in my memory that is definitely "identity amnesia". And my thoughts associating with that make me wonder if some of my internal plurality was in response to those events, though I suspect I'm at least partially a "born that way" sort.

And this also has a strong familiarity for me. (Remember I was talking about multitasking the other day, Brooks-love?)

It seems to me that a lot of systems have personalities divided up on age-bands in some way; I wonder how common it is for the divisions to fall more along purpose than age.

I also find it interesting to note that I have four aspects whose significant roles include processing anger. (Rage and other "red" emotions, moral wrongness, self-hatred, and cold poison.) (I have three that process religious stuff as a prime role, two that are 'fronts' for dealing with the outside, two that do intimacy, two that do music . . . these are overlapping sets, incidentally. The "moral wrongness" anger-processor is one of the religious processors, f'rex.)

Noodle, noodle.

Comments

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Have you read the book-- Aristoi, I think it's called, by Walter Jon Williams? It might interest you, being as it's based around a society that has gone to a lot of trouble to pull those sub-personalities out of hiding in order to make use of them and let them do whatever it is they're best at...

[kiya]

Oh, that sounds neat. Thanks for the recommendation.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

I'd like to second the rescommendation for Aristoi: fascinating book that, IMO, almost succeeds, and shows a lot more interesting stuff than would have been visible if it did actually succeed perfectly.