Autosarcophagy

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The eating of one's own flesh. uncountable

    "The concept's autosarcophagy, its autoassimilation, is ultimately the birth of the subject – the suffering idea brings forth the subject (this is at least how I come to comprehend parts of the Lost and the Lonely)."

Synonyms

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autocannibalism

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"The concept's autosarcophagy, its autoassimilation, is ultimately the birth of the subject – the suffering idea brings forth the subject (this is at least how I come to comprehend parts of the Lost and the Lonely)."

Etymology

From auto- + sarcophagy.

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