Autophagous Spain and the European Other

MY hypothesis in this essay is also a metaphor. I want to argue that Spain is a self-eater, in the sense of Unamuno's image of the heautontimoroumenos who devours himself spiritually. This destructive turning against the self occurs on both the individual and national levels. Autophagia is the condition of the writer's divided consciousness, and it has its parallel in Spain's self-aggression as a collective entity that consumes itself in civil wars or in ideo

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