If all the individual's behaviour comes to be compulsively alienated
from the secret self so that it is given over entirely to compulsive
mimicry, impersonating, caricaturing, and to such transitory
behavioural foreign bodies as well, he may then try to strip himself
of all his behaviour. This is one form of catatonic withdrawal. It is as though one were to try to cure a general skin infection by sloughing off one's whole skin.