An Ideology of Tearing the Body Apart: Wétiko Psychosis and Cannibalism in Castration

Medical intervention over moral intelligence

Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ, A Eunuch’s Dream, 1874

If ever the lid gets off my head

And lets the brain away

The fellow will go where he belonged—

Without a hint from me.

- Emily Dickinson, 1863

I should have loved a thunderbird instead;

At least when spring comes they roar back again.

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

(I think I made you up inside my head.)

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