The Mortgage on the Brain (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Vincent Harper
- First Published: 1905
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—extrapolatory
- Time of Work: The early twentieth century
- Setting: London, England; Paris, France; and Dresden, Germany
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: France or French people, Twentieth century, Paris, England or English people, London, Personality, Identity, Germany or German people, Hypnotism, Brain
- Locales: Paris, France, London, England, Dresden, Germany
The Plot
A young doctor named Ethelbert Croft recruits the help of the great psychologist Dr. Yznaga in diagnosing and treating the problems of Viscountess Torbeth. She suffers from what would now be called multiple personality, although Vincent Harper calls it “complex personality.” At intervals, she undergoes a complete change of identity, releasing a second self far less inhibited than the primary one.
The patient’s father, Dean Chelmsford, immediately opposes Yznaga, disapproving strongly of his materialistic theories. Yznaga insists that there is no such...
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