I am getting quite sick and tired of books, movies and the general public either alluding to or outright claiming that Marilyn Monroe had split personalities, one being Norma Jeane, her “true” self, and the other being Marilyn. There is the implication that Norma Jeane was somehow innocent and untarnished, childlike and joyful, and that Marilyn held the more womanly facets of her personality- worldly, sultry, sexy. Armchair psychiatrists like to imagine that these two conflicting “personalities” were at war with each other, that she was constantly fighting from within to reconcile them with each other, and that this inner turmoil is what ultimately led to her destruction.
