Übersetzung für "Selbstzerfleischung" in Englisch

In times, in which a misunderstood and misused concept of melancholy is romanticised as the ductus of free development, this kind of self-deprecation is an appropriate remedy against everyday phrasemongering.

He is imprisoned between utterly absurd and simply entertaining memories of sex, drug and alcohol escapades, which a lot of people will be jealous of and on the other side there is his psychic self-laceration because of this excess.

The massive self-doubts, the self-deprecation and the sharp criticism accompanying the American elimination of the mass murderer Osama bin Laden in comments and talk shows is very irritating for us.

Undaunted, the German cultural pages still like to label even successful Austrian authors like Daniel Kehlmann, Arno Geiger and Thomas Glavinic, who in recent years have more or less systematically abandoned the ban on narration and the practices of literary grief-therapy and collective self-flagellation, as the new German “miracle of storytelling”. Although it must be added that the Vienna-based Kehlmann, with his dual citizenship, does invite a double evaluation.

In times, in which a misunderstood and misused concept of melancholy is romanticised as the ductus of free development, this kind of self-deprecation is an appropriate remedy against everyday phrasemongering.

The General Assembly held in Berlin was a site of contradictions, at certain moments even of self-laceration.

But if it remains unconscious of its position and the tasks confronting it, the war forces the proletariat to disastrous self-emasculation in the wake of the bourgeoisie.

Its colour, which the Bible does not mention, spans an associative arch, from the self-butchery of the idolatrous rival of the creator in the eschatalogical final struggle, to the sacrifice of the red heifer.

It is by no means a coincidence, that the resulting self-destruction, where their tearing themselves to pieces takes place between ski gymnastics and expressions of solidarity, appears very similar to that which happens within the clan of journalists in Krohmer's work "Familienkreise" (2003).

In the 17th and 18th century, Absolutism, the unrestricted power and rule of the king, put an end to the madness of religious wars and the self-destruction of Europe.

Self-deprecation involves someone engaging in behaviors that are harmful to himself in order to get revenge on the person who has upset him.

Instead of a leading role, however, Europe only has the energy for self-reproach, which is clearly shown in the attacks against Hungary, and more recently against Poland, which are often constitutional in nature.

Now millions of proletarians of all nations are falling on the field of shame, of fratricide, of self-destruction, the slave-song on their lips.

From the many cases of ethnically- or religiously-colored self-lacerations of the losers to the uprisings of urban masses in Africa and farmers in Latin America, to the numberless strikes in Indonesia, the workers struggles in Iran, the proletarian riots against austerity in Argentina, and, not least, the growing unrest in new WTO member China: Bush also knows that the USA has too few thumbs to stop the thousand leaks in the dam, which defends the new world order against the expression of the indefensible circumstances of the pyramid of world-exploitation.

This means the specific, and in this form mainly for the later Left, the generally characteristic self-destruction, this process, as utopian contents, ideological truths, legitimizing facts in the power conflicts led against each other were not only instrumentalized, but lose also necessarily their intellectual and moral legimity through the logic and the practice of the power conflicts (5).

The populist left-wing parties will benefit from the Spanish Socialists' self-flagellation, El Mundo worries:

There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration.