VV(11): Fugue Your Buddy

[Dave Monroe]

David Lynch also described his film, Lost Highway, as "a psychogenic fugue,"
although he apparently wasn't aware of any such actual psychological condition
at the time.  See ...

Rodley, Chris, ed.  Lynch on Lynch.
    Boston: Faber and Faber, 1997.

The interview regarding Lost Highway is also included as in introduction to the
F & F ed. of the screenplay.  See also  ...

http://www.english.upenn.edu/~ov/1.3/bh/highway.html

But I still say, watch Kiss Me Deadly as well, note the opening credits, the
beach house at the end, the strobing lights, the noise ...

Judy wrote:

> Taken from Martha Stout's "Myth of Sanity: Divided Consciousness and the
> Promise of Awareness" (2001) regarding fugue:
>
> "The somewhat old-fashioned term for Julia's departures from herself during
> which she would continue to carry out day-to-day activities is "fugue," from
> the Italian word fuga meaning "flight." A dissociative state that reaches
> the point of fugue is one of the most dramatic spontaneously occurring
> examples of the human mind's ability to divide consciousness into parts. In
> fugue, the person, or the mind of the person, can be subdivided in a manner
> that allows certain intellectually driven functions to continue - rising at
> a certain time, conversing with others, following a schedule, even carrying
> out complex tasks - while the part of the consciousness that we usually
> experience as the "self" - the self-aware center that wishes, dreams, plans,
> emotes, and remembers - has taken flight...Clinical fugue differs from
> common human experience not so much in kind as in degree. Fugue is
> terror-driven and complete, while the more recognizable condition is the
> result of distraction, and relatively transparent. As fugue, the car trip
> example would involve a driver who failed to remember not just the process
> of the trip, but also the fact that there had been a trip, and from where.
> Far beyond distraction, the more remarkable dissociative reaction of fugue
> would have been set off by something - an event, a conversation, an image, a
> thought - that was related, though perhaps in some oblique and symbolic way,
> to trauma." (pp. 34-35).
>
> - Judy