
Siri Hustvedt and Lisa Appignanesi
London Review Bookshop Podcast
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The Difference Between Multiple Personality Disorder and Being a Novelist
The act of making art is often this. Do I feel that my boundaries are loosening? Right? So what's the difference? I asked myself after writing the blazing world between multiple personality disorder and being a novelist. The difference is that, you know, it's Ernst-Kris. He answers that question very beautifully by saying that artists don't have ego disintegration in the way that people who have those disorders do. But that doesn't mean you don't have an experience of plurality. It's just that you don't go to pieces. You don't fragment in the ways that people are really suffering from these disorders, too. That's one of the areas that I can't
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