![]() ![]() ![]() The second pleasure is the accidental meeting with Ingrid Bergman, who is sensitive to the clues that Gregory misses, and who is a reliable guide, his Beatrice, who can help him recover his old life-for even amnesia, if prolonged, can become as dreary as one’s old life. For the moviegoer there occurred first the pleasure of the prospect of a new life and the infinite possibilities of the self as represented by Gregory Peck. The best exploitation of the pleasures of amnesia occurred in Hitchcock’s Spellbound where Gregory Peck had amnesia and Ingrid Bergman was his psychiatrist. A stranger stops him in the street and calls him by a strange name. After a while in his new life he begins to receive clues about his old life. ![]() He begins a new life in a new place with a new girlfriend, new job. He (or she) finds himself in a strange place, having forgotten his old place, his family, friends, business. He will not necessarily develop pneumonia or cancer or schizophrenia, but inevitably he will be overtaken by amnesia. IN ALL SOAP OPERAS and in many films and novels, a leading character will sooner or later develop amnesia. Century (1) The Amnesic Self: Why the Self Wants to Get Rid of Itself ![]()
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