What if Daniel had dissociative amnesia?

[Diz]

Correct me if I am wrong, but my whole impression of the game is exactly this. Daniel does forget who he is, and he sure has no recollection of where he is. The only reason he still remembers his name and where he lives, from what I have gathered, is because he holds so strongly onto those basic facts, repeating it to himself only moments before collapsing. It may not even be that he knows that his own name is Daniel, but that it is a name he has in his head for some reason. I always felt that his mind perfectly reflects the gameplay, like, when we start the game, we hear him say Daniel, and shortly after, we wake up in the middle of nowhere with no knowledge about anything. Is this not an effect the game was trying to achieve?

Also, regarding hunting down Alexander, I am pretty sure that most of the motivation came from that letter. It may not even be that he wanted to do any harm to Alexander from that very moment, but Alexander was his only lead to, well, anything, and fleeing the castle at that point did not bring much success. For all we know, his true motivation to kill him came back to him after reading up on his own story and re-experiencing some things through flashbacks. ^^