automasochistic en · ADJ
Etymology
From auto- + masochistic.
Meanings
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Deriving (especially sexual) pleasure from abusing or punishing oneself.
[…] this blow is presented […] as violently automasochistic. Think of Fight Club, particularly those scenes toward its close, where Jack is caught on camera—the truth regime of video?
2007, William P. MacNeil, Lex Populi: The Jurisprudence of Popular Culture, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 56:This was first taken to be a bestial murder , but finally it was cleared up that this was an unfortunate accident during an automasochistic performance .
1947, Acta Radiologica, volume 28, page 280: