autosarcophagy en · NOUN
Etymology
From auto- + sarcophagy.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The eating of one's own flesh.
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).
2015, Charles William Johns, Incompatible Ballerina and Other Essays:
Relateds
autophagy · cannibalism · ouroboros · cannibal