Jeff Jenkins
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| Location | San Diego, CA, United States |
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| Introduction | Illeism is the act of referring to oneself in the third person instead of the more appropriate first person. Illeism is sometimes used in literature as a stylistic device. In real life usage, illeism can reflect a number of different stylistic intentions or involuntary circumstances. It can also be used as a device to illustrate the feeling of "being outside one's body and watching things happen", a psychological disconnect resulting from dissonance either from trauma, or from psychotic episodes of actions that can't be reconciled with the individual's own self-image. sblogtic@gmail.com |