But at the moment, I’m busy writing a little article of my own. Shit though. It seems relevant. Maybe I better just read it.

In certain crisis situations the psyche, instead of putting all its eggs in one basket, to play safe and ultimately protect its integrity, may choose to invest fragments of libido into splinter personalities for safe-keeping until the crisis has abated. In therapy situations I have seen this anticipated in dreams, then worked out in situations where a person was facing imminent, possibly life-threatening danger and in an attempt to cushion the impending blow, split into several ego stances. I have called this phenomenon “pre-traumatic dissociation” as an anticipatory move which, unlike the more severe and overridingly pathological Multiple Personality Disorder, does not interfere significantly with the individual’s ability to function normally in day-to-day reality.

No! I have to finish this article dammit. Then I can come back and read away…