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Caroline, Jansy,
Please forgive my intrusion here, but wouldn¹t multiple personality
disorders be categorized more as forms of psychosis than neurosis? I always
thought forms of derangement from the actual as severe as MPD would be
diagnosed as psychotic following the unwritten rule that neurotics know that
something is the matter while psychotics either don¹t know or are at least
severely mistaken about their condition.
³It is possible to suppress knowledge of a language, especially one learned
in early childhood, and it is also possible to suppress one's
homosexuality.²
Possibly, perhaps, but to what end? I don¹t understand why an actual
psychiatric patient would contrive such a complicated and nihilistic dodge.
Best,
Andrew
On 10/9/06 3:00 PM, "Carolyn Kunin" <chaiselongue@EARTHLINK.NET> wrote:
>
>> >
>> > Andrew Brown noted three clear points:1. " Shade suppressing a knowledge of
>> > Russian as well as his homosexuality is an awful lot of suppressing" ;jansy
>
>
> Dear Jansy,
>
> From what I understand of the phenomenon, multiple personality disordered folk
> (you and I agree that true multiples are a rarity*) actually do "an awful lot
> of suppressing." It is their uncanny ability to do just that which
> distinguishes them from the run of the mill neurotic. It is possible to
> suppress knowledge of a language, especially one learned in early childhood,
> and it is also possible to suppress one's homosexuality.
>
> Carolyn
>
>
> *see especially Ian Hacking's book on the subject
>
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Please forgive my intrusion here, but wouldn¹t multiple personality
disorders be categorized more as forms of psychosis than neurosis? I always
thought forms of derangement from the actual as severe as MPD would be
diagnosed as psychotic following the unwritten rule that neurotics know that
something is the matter while psychotics either don¹t know or are at least
severely mistaken about their condition.
³It is possible to suppress knowledge of a language, especially one learned
in early childhood, and it is also possible to suppress one's
homosexuality.²
Possibly, perhaps, but to what end? I don¹t understand why an actual
psychiatric patient would contrive such a complicated and nihilistic dodge.
Best,
Andrew
On 10/9/06 3:00 PM, "Carolyn Kunin" <chaiselongue@EARTHLINK.NET> wrote:
>
>> >
>> > Andrew Brown noted three clear points:1. " Shade suppressing a knowledge of
>> > Russian as well as his homosexuality is an awful lot of suppressing" ;jansy
>
>
> Dear Jansy,
>
> From what I understand of the phenomenon, multiple personality disordered folk
> (you and I agree that true multiples are a rarity*) actually do "an awful lot
> of suppressing." It is their uncanny ability to do just that which
> distinguishes them from the run of the mill neurotic. It is possible to
> suppress knowledge of a language, especially one learned in early childhood,
> and it is also possible to suppress one's homosexuality.
>
> Carolyn
>
>
> *see especially Ian Hacking's book on the subject
>
> Search the Nabokv-L archive at UCSB
> <http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html>
> Contact the Editors <mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu>
> All private editorial communications, without exception, are read by both
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