Sunday, February 8, 2015

I wanted to mention my thinking on Murphy’s idea of compulsion and kindling…

…Messages enter the brain and then the brain works to achieve the results of the message, like “sleep”…

2.(in neurology) a process by which a seizure or other brain event is both initiated and its recurrence made more likely.

The law of the subconscious is compulsion.

Kay's Place, History, Television and Entanglements...

…I equated the development of a compulsion to kindling which is used to describe the development of a seizure.   As for compulsion, I think in more cases it is the brain and personality seeking to create that which it wants to know.  Once the knowledge has been acquired a memory develops.  One’s success or failure in a situation depends on the strength of the memory.   Now we understand why Dali repeatedly painted certain themes because the traumas were so severe. This kind of thinking may have culminated from philosophers and psychologists who were studying the nature of experience and its importance.  This is where film has it’s advantage but it must be managed.