This is interesting. I fit the same pattern as both of you -- a deliberate and conscious "split" created to contain, express or signify a dichotomy within the original person. I don't regard myself as "shattered" or "fractured", though. I think of it more as "branching", growing in multiple directions.
It started, in my early teens, as a deliberate forking or branching of this consciousness. The first two proto-personalities, so to speak, evolved into Anomia and Marlana, representing Chaos and Order respectively. The Marlana side of me went undercover for most of my adult lifetime, and has only recently resurfaced.
I find it interesting that the so-called "Jekyll and Hyde" pattern of plurality created by an inner conflict within a single person does exist, and perhaps is less uncommon than was once thought. This adds a new model to the types of plural origins -- natural, external trauma-induced, soulbonded, walk-in, and internal-division induced. In my case, it was very strongly voluntary. The inner conflict can occur among various lines: good/evil, male/female, order/rebellion, etc. In all four cases I've seen so far -- you two, me, and one other -- the first "split" is into two polarized personalities, and further branching occurs afterwards.
We also tend to blend a lot, too. We think of ourselves as primarily sharing a consciousness and identity rather than a body.
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Internal-Dichotomy-Generated Plurality
Date: 2005-10-10 04:10 am (UTC)It started, in my early teens, as a deliberate forking or branching of this consciousness. The first two proto-personalities, so to speak, evolved into Anomia and Marlana, representing Chaos and Order respectively. The Marlana side of me went undercover for most of my adult lifetime, and has only recently resurfaced.
I find it interesting that the so-called "Jekyll and Hyde" pattern of plurality created by an inner conflict within a single person does exist, and perhaps is less uncommon than was once thought. This adds a new model to the types of plural origins -- natural, external trauma-induced, soulbonded, walk-in, and internal-division induced. In my case, it was very strongly voluntary. The inner conflict can occur among various lines: good/evil, male/female, order/rebellion, etc. In all four cases I've seen so far -- you two, me, and one other -- the first "split" is into two polarized personalities, and further branching occurs afterwards.
We also tend to blend a lot, too. We think of ourselves as primarily sharing a consciousness and identity rather than a body.