self-mutilation

English

Etymology

From self- +‎ mutilation.

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Noun

self-mutilation (uncountable)

  1. self-harm
    • 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 97, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozkład (in Polish):
      In this way Stalinism really produced the 'new Soviet man': an ideological schizophrenic, a liar who believed what he was saying, a man capable of incessant, voluntary acts of intellectual self-mutilation.

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