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autosarcophagy

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Autosarcophagy (noun) means the act of eating your own flesh.

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The act of eating your 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)." — Charles William Johns, Incompatible Ballerina and Other Essays (2015)

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