La posseduta

Freely adapted from Oliver Sacks' "The man who mistook his wife for a hat".

From the text:


This grotesque, involuntary resonance, or mutuality, by which everyone
was drawn into an absurdly amplifying interaction, was the source of the disturbance I had seen from a
distance. This woman who, becoming everybody, lost her own self, became nobody. This woman with a
thousand faces, masks, personae—how must it be for her in this whirlwind of identities?