...and not the ability to write or read and many other things? They are both essential notions.
I'd have understood if he had forgotten what happened recently (short-term memory loss)... but his name?
That's the same as if I forgot how to swallow but not how to chew.
I'm demanding. I may hate Casablanca and love Freddy vs. Jason
Because you're an expert on amnesia and how the brain works.
Who says violence is not the answer?
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The brain is, like, complicated and stuff. And yes, it happens. It's like people suffering head trauma and losing the ability to speak their language, but can understand it fine.
shareBourne's amnesia is actually a psychological disorder called 'Dissociative amnesia' wherein a person loses all knowledge and memories pertaining to his/her identity and personal life, but retains his/her procedural memory (how to do things) and other general memory.
shareDifferent parts of the brain handle different aspects of a person's abilities. Bourne suffered damage in the areas which handle memory and identity, but not in the areas which store reading, writing, and the ability to stalk, kill and evade capture. Conversely, a person could suffer damage to his reading & writing but have crystal clear memories, and there are in fact many documented cases of such patients.
shareBourne never suffered brain damage in the movie...he suffered psychological damage, owing to his guilt overpowering his conditioning upon seeing Wombosi's kids, compounded by the history of behavior modification he'd suffered at Hirsch's hands (as revealed in Ultimatum).
shareNot only that, let's not forget that he had many different identities. One day he was Jason Bourne, the next day he was someone else with a complete new job etc. And under all of this there is real identity buried somewhere. Now he gets injured and shocked. And all of this on top of undergoing experimental training methods. Remember that all agents suffered from headaches? It was implied that the training involved some process that fücks up their brain.
shareWell, not really the brain, but the mind, but point taken...
And yeah, the stresses of living the life of an elite covert operative/assassin; having to ceaselessly infiltrate, assassinate and escape over and over again. As 'Jason Bourne', he was the perfect killing machine, and Conklin and Hirsch treated him as they would a machine, forgetting that there was a person buried somewhere underneath, waiting to snap under all the pressure. In fact, I recall seeing a deleted scene of The Bourne Identity, in which Conklin consults a psychiatrist about Bourne's turning rogue. When Conklin mentions Bourne's perfect track record (even referring to him as a 'unit'), the psychiatrist remarks about how even machines tend to break down if they're overused. She then goes on to mention the behavior modification. So yeah, whatever Treadstone put him through was steadily breaking him down from the inside, and what he experianced on the Wombosi op was the last straw.
I'm diabetic and years ago, when my control wasn't as accurate as it is now, I would occasionally wake up in a hospital with no idea of my name. I could function fine, hold a conversation etc but I just couldn't remember any details about myself. Once I woke up in hospital and a pretty little nurse came up to me to ask me some questions and I realised I couldn't understand a thing she was saying. I just smiled at her and quietly wondered how long it would take for the whole language to come back. It turned out I was in France and she was obviously speaking French but I'd forgotten about the trip. Hey ho.
Obviously Bourne's condition is quite different to my own but I thought I'd just mention a personal instance of forgetting your name.
Jason Bourne is perhaps a created identity as well. You never really know. The character has absolutely no 'back story' and no past so he is very unsettling.
shareJason Bourne is perhaps a created identity as well.