David Lynch who did not study philosophy but seems to belong to those natural talents to whom incredible insights of the deepness of mind just fall - comparable to people who did find amazing results in mathematics without ever having studied one semester mathematics -, has become more and more the only film maker who systematically eliminated all traces of Aristotelian logic by replacing implications through associations. So, whoever has studied the relevant literature between Kant or Hegel and Heidegger or Gotthard Günther and still has no concrete picture in his mind how a world would look in which logic has been replaced by sensation, must watch Lynch's movie - starting from "Eraserhead", in which the alienation of the human being in a world had been shown which had become utterly senseless - up to "Inland Empire", a masterwork which bears all signs of an ultimate stadium from where there will be no way to lead further.
A world in which there is no logic is a world without causality. What we call association is merely an empty container in which everything falls which does not fall under logic. However, there is a huge difference between what the surrealists did at the beginning of the 20st century and what Lynch is doing today: It is not true that everything is possible. Abolishment of logic means, in Lynch's sense, that one reasons can have innumerable consequences - but those are well determined, you just do not know which one will follow at a certain time and place from the reason. In this sense, one could speak of unequivocal multi-possibility. This is very well shown in "Inland Empire" by the many recurring scenes - scenes which are shown first isolated, and then are recurring in many different and allegedly non-fitting contexts. As we see, the Un-equivocalness of the multi-possible consequences is nothing but the memory of the lead actress to hold together what still can be hold together. Hence memory plays an important role in Lynch's films (while they do not do in surrealist movies): Memory is the only possibility to isolate and recognize recurring elements which may serve later in order to give structure to a stream of ideas which seem to be deserted by logic. We thus do wonder that associations, which have replaced logic, are solely based on memory. But there is nothing left to coordinate the associations. In the end, we found ourselves confronted by memory versus mind.
A world in which there is no logic is a world without causality. What we call association is merely an empty container in which everything falls which does not fall under logic. However, there is a huge difference between what the surrealists did at the beginning of the 20st century and what Lynch is doing today: It is not true that everything is possible. Abolishment of logic means, in Lynch's sense, that one reasons can have innumerable consequences - but those are well determined, you just do not know which one will follow at a certain time and place from the reason. In this sense, one could speak of unequivocal multi-possibility. This is very well shown in "Inland Empire" by the many recurring scenes - scenes which are shown first isolated, and then are recurring in many different and allegedly non-fitting contexts. As we see, the Un-equivocalness of the multi-possible consequences is nothing but the memory of the lead actress to hold together what still can be hold together. Hence memory plays an important role in Lynch's films (while they do not do in surrealist movies): Memory is the only possibility to isolate and recognize recurring elements which may serve later in order to give structure to a stream of ideas which seem to be deserted by logic. We thus do wonder that associations, which have replaced logic, are solely based on memory. But there is nothing left to coordinate the associations. In the end, we found ourselves confronted by memory versus mind.