Premise

Adam Hart has been eating me alive. Need to re-affirm the premise of the "Accidental Man".

1. The mind is an accident, imprinted haphazardly and by chance. Those with power over us have more say in what has been imprinted in the social conditioned humanimal than the humanimal does themselves.
2. ACCIDENTS: Thids component of the story needs more attention.

Perhaps:

Adam has ana ccident in which he loses not his memory but his identity.

There is an opinion in conventional circles that we are our memories. I want to challenge this. I want the character, in realising the automatic nature of his mind, to discover the possibility of

Being anything
Anyone
Anytime
Anywhere

And to fall at first into a world where anything goes.

Having loosened his attachment to his accidental identity, he then begins to carve a real one through methods known only to initiates. This, as a writer, will be the hard part, because I want to demystify everything and make such transformation a matter of necessity rather than something "special".

At first his impetus was going to be a traumatic past that informs his present decisions and behaviours, but now I think perhaps it will be because he has lost his identity due to an accident that he has to make a new one, while all those around him are trying to persuade him to revert back t his old one. That would be "healing", that would make him "better", but despite his accident he doesn't regard himself as sick.

His symtpoms include a lack of value for the greater social good, and an inability to look after himself in the normal ways. For this reason he will go on his own odyssey, having discovered that he is in fact a cynic. He will live on the streets for some time, i think, though it will be difficult not to be melodramatic or a premadona about this. Again, necessity rather than virtue.

The second part of the story will come after he discovers that rather than being anything, anyone, anywhere, anytime, he is in fact

Everything
Everywhere
Everytime

And in his homelessness he begins to feel the sorrows of the world. He feels everything, and returns to the hospital that originally treated him looking for help.

Then I dont know what happens.