12 See: Dambudzo Marechera. Black Sunlight. London: Heinemann (1980), p 117. On the issue of sacrifice and the how: See: Gertrud B Ujhely, ‘Thoughts concerning the Causa Finalis of the Cognitive Mode Inherent in pre-Oedipal psychopathology'1980 accessed 8/8 2008. n.p.

The author’s sacrifice in writing without holding himself back in a mode of self-preservation or self-adulation can be conceptually linked to his eternal return, as per the following passage in the work listed above:

“[The magical layer of consciousness] is part of the realm of feminine power, of nature itself, of circularity, complementarily, of eternal return and of human and divine sacrifice.”

Also see: Mircea Eliade, Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy, trans. Willard R Trask (Bollingen Series; USA: Princeton University Press, 1964), p 38, regarding the Yakut: “[T]he central theme of an initiation ceremony [is] dismembership of the neophyte’s body and renewal of his organs; ritual death followed by resurrection.”

See also, concerning Siberian shamans, p 43: “demonic beings cut his body to pieces, boil it, and exchange it for better organs.”

This type of shamanic consciousness accords with a state of regression to the paranoid-schizoid position of the early pre-Oedipal stage, when one’s body image and mental state are subjectively fragmented rather than being experienced as a coherent whole.