If the reestablishment of the barriers cannot happen, if the insight is lost, then the derangement begins, a chaos that paralyzes the will and the imagination. The other means that his thoughts are discovered by others, have been absorbed by others. The first is the schizophrenic type, the second the paranoiac. If the barriers of his psychic personality have broken to pieces, then his property has become common property. He who is slain in the field is delivered up to all marauders.
Autism is an attempt to protect oneself from depersonification with extreme measures.
He shuns people because he is not certain of being able to conceal his thoughts from them, he senses the foreign glance as piercingly scrutinizing and persecuting, he defends himself desperately. The compulsive neurotic with all his compulsive inversions and compulsive thoughts casts spells. Thus compulsion neurosis and its inversion are nothing else but a black and white magic. He conjures constantly and hastens to carry out counter-magic. Because the thought concerns the death of someone close to him, the counter thought must annul the first thought.