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* [[Matt Ruff]], ''[[Set This House in Order]]'' | * [[Matt Ruff]], ''[[Set This House in Order]]'' | ||
* "Born Again", [[The X-Files]] episode (1x21) - A transgender partial reincarnation / possession. A murdered male policeman is reincarnated into the body of a little girl. Notable for its ''non'' discussion of gender issues. | * "Born Again", [[The X-Files]] episode (1x21) - A transgender partial reincarnation / possession. A murdered male policeman is reincarnated into the body of a little girl. Notable for its ''non'' discussion of gender issues. | ||
* ''[[The X-Files]]'' also suggested reincarnation in ''[[The Field Where I Died]]''; Mulder apparently had not always been a man | |||
* [[Lynn Flewelling]]'s ''[[The Bone Doll Twin]]'' , ''[[Hidden Warrior]]'', ''[[The Oracle's Queen]]'' | * [[Lynn Flewelling]]'s ''[[The Bone Doll Twin]]'' , ''[[Hidden Warrior]]'', ''[[The Oracle's Queen]]'' | ||
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[[Category:Body themes]] | [[Category:Body themes]] | ||
[[Category:Body and mind/soul themes]] | [[Category:Body and mind/soul themes]] | ||
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Latest revision as of 09:47, 7 June 2010
Multiple psyches/souls inhabiting the same body
A special instance of soul migrations etc., but the dual (or multiple) inhabitance in the same body permits the author to engage characters in cross-gender dialogue; verbalize their gender dysphoria; comment on the other person's experience or their own experience of the other person's body; show blended gendered experiences (as in sudden bisexuality). May also be handled as a form of demonic possession, spirit possession, or past life recollection/possession. May also be treated in a non-SFnal (or ambiguously SFnal) way with MPD, multiple personality disorder.
- Frank Herbert, Dune series -- character Alia and indeed other characters who cannot handle absorption of ancestral memories
- Robert A. Heinlein, I Will Fear No Evil
- Tanya Huff, Quarters Series
- Matt Ruff, Set This House in Order
- "Born Again", The X-Files episode (1x21) - A transgender partial reincarnation / possession. A murdered male policeman is reincarnated into the body of a little girl. Notable for its non discussion of gender issues.
- The X-Files also suggested reincarnation in The Field Where I Died; Mulder apparently had not always been a man
- Lynn Flewelling's The Bone Doll Twin , Hidden Warrior, The Oracle's Queen