Translation guide
A musical form where a theme is introduced and then repeated by different voices in counterpoint. Also used in psychiatry for a dissociative state.
A contrapuntal composition where a short melody or phrase (the subject) is introduced by one part and successively taken up by others.
A dissociative state where a person wanders away from their usual environment and may have amnesia for their past.
The clinical term for dissociative fugue. '解離性' means dissociative, '遁走' means flight/wandering.
解離性遁走の患者は、自分が誰か思い出せないことがあります。
Patients with dissociative fugue may not remember who they are.
The psychiatric term uses '遁走' (tonsō), which means 'flight' or 'escape', but in everyday Japanese, '遁走' is not used for ordinary running away. It is a technical term.
Bach's fugues are masterpieces of counterpoint.
この遁走曲は四声で書かれている。
This fugue is written for four voices.
Literally 'fugue state', used in psychiatric contexts. Slightly less formal than the full clinical term.
彼は遁走状態で何日も行方不明になった。
He went missing for days in a fugue state.