autosarcophagy
English
Etymology
auto- + sarcophagy
Noun
autosarcophagy (uncountable)
- The eating of one's own flesh.
Synonyms
- Synonym of autocannibalism
Related terms
- autophagy
- cannibal
- cannibalism
- ouroboros
- 2015, Charles William Johns, Incompatible Ballerina and Other Essays:
- 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).
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