ABSTRACT
Imagine this: You are in an unfamiliar city, but can’t remember having traveled there. Or you don’t know where you were yesterday. Or the day before. And people you have never heard of keep calling you up and reproaching you for not having kept an appointment that you never made. On the fl oor of your own apartment you regularly fi nd your favorite clothing, cut to pieces. You can’t explain it. You receive credit card bills that you can’t pay, for things you didn’t purchase-but fi nd in your closet. You are held responsible for damaging property in clubs that you’ve never frequented, in cities you have never visited. Finally you go to a psychiatrist, and the diagnosis is: you suffer from multiple personality disorder. You have several personalities and it is the other personalities who have cut up your favorite clothes, bought the designer items, made the appointments with strangers, and smashed the furniture in unknown nightclubs.
