Excuse us for missing the humor, we have conversations with people trying experimental or progressive treatments for their mental disorders on a pretty regular basis and try not to make any assumptions. This being a lucid dreaming community also makes us try to be even a little more openminded than normal.
We can relate a lot to what you say. The general consensus in here is that traumagenic multiplicity probably in some ways at its core relates to the sorts of clusters you refer to becoming so separately and heavily developed via the acute and persistent excitatory dissociative effects of trauma and from such a young age that it simply causes the "voices in your head" to become so heavily distinct from one another and so much more individually complex than usual that the loss of inherent whole-network connectivity is compensated for by the fractured networks being able to communicate verbally on a level we normally associate with whole-network outward communication between bodies in the conscious realm. We also feel that this is where the condition likely has relevance to the archetypes you also mention, though we also suspect that the mechanisms of dissociation in dissociative identity disorder are more flexible to the context than that because it's not like we just have a bunch of alters that perfectly match to any one set of traditional labels, but there is to some degree a feeling of complementing between some of our alters that invokes this sort of "parts of a whole" imagery, even though our condition has caused them to feel in some ways individually developed as their own wholes nonetheless. Still, we do not suspect that living without this condition feels particularly similar to living with it, we just suspect that the brain finds a way to get the stuff it wants and needs either way.
Another aspect of the condition we feel is important to consider is the way that people who develop dissociative identity disorder through trauma at a young age which seems to be necessary are often then still somehow capable of developing new alters into adulthood long beyond the age at which the condition is known to still develop from trauma initially. We also have many of these types of alters in our system, and none of them have that same feeling of being one fractured part of our core personality or acting in any archetypal way, but rather actually seem much more fully functional like they have no core dissociation like that compared to our earlier members. While all systems are different and our experiences need not be universal or largely representative, we do find it notable that in our system, the earlier members actually also share a sense of personally identifying with the physical body, even though not entirely with another internally, but these later members are instead often "copies" of external people which in the community are known as introjects, and they instinctively act like those external people even though they are cognitively complex enough to fight those instincts and also personally identify with the body of the person they are copied from rather than the one we have. Essentially, they seem a lot like dream characters at their core programming but given the permanence required to development an intelligent and coherent consciousness and the ability to internally communicate and switch with the earlier system members just like they can with one another, and we feel that this is also an important observation because it still allows us to bring it back to the model you proposed despite this initial divergence; in this case, we feel that dream characters could also be basically thought of like those neuron clusters that become complex enough to have their own voice when given that processing power, and dreams prove it already, and again with the help of traumatic dissociation they could become even more developed. We also suspect that these system members may appear to be more neurologically "whole" in some ways than the earlier members essentially because their brain states are derived from our empathy systems attempting to reverse engineer what is happening in the brains of the people they are copied from for the sake of developing that individual-specific theory of mind drive you see running wild in dreams, and of course most of those other people do not also have that core dissociation and thus it's avoided. All theoretical obviously, but those are roughly our thoughts on it so far, but we're still pretty new to understanding that we even have this condition.
We very much appreciate you sharing your thoughts as well.
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