To an untrained person, a dissociative or fugue state seems like a "handy excuse" for lying. How do you prove that a person doesn't remember? Even professionals are often skeptical.
A dissociative fugue is characterized by generally short-termed amnesia of one's own personal identity, such as their personality traits. The period of fugue, however, is generally forgotten (as amnesia for the period of time, versus voluntarily) once one recovers from such an episode.
Cases of dissociative fugue are more common in wartime or in communities disrupted by a natural disaster
Dissociative fugue is a disorder in which a person temporarily loses his or her sense of personal identity and travels to another location where he or she may assume a new identity
only known: retired NFL star Herschel Walker.
justin bieber has been said to have this
Agatha Christie disappeared for 11 days in 1926 - likely experiencing a fugue state, or dissociative fugue.
And what is your question? Amnesia (A+)
Dissociative fugue is a disorder in which a person temporarily loses his or her sense of personal identity and travels to another location where he or she may assume a new identity
Mary, who was found wandering around a shopping mall in Denver but has no idea who she is or how she got there.
That type of amnesia would be Hysterical or Fugue Amnesia. The memory of the traumatic incident will eventually return a few days later, although it may never be complete.
After disappearing, Agatha Christie claimed that she couldn't remember how she got to the hotel where she was found, or what happened during the eleven days that she was missing. Other than this, she didn't suffer from everyday memory loss. It is likely that she experienced a dissociative fugue, which is a rare, temporary psychological disturbance. She would have no memory of the incident.
I guess this joke is intentional: A: nothing to do with fugues and counterpoint, DF is a disturbed psychological state when someone goes wandering off, frequently without recalling where they've been or why they did it.