self-abnegation

She hadn’t yet parsed the borderlines separating willing self-abnegation, mental illness and abuse.

It's become a daily self-abnegation ritual for those yearning to be on the inside of Trumpworld and that apparently includes his own son.

It's true that from time to time he would stray and say something vaguely critical but over Trump's term he became progressively sycophantic to the point of embarrassing self-abnegation.

Because Ernaux writes so often about stigmatized private experiences, one could imagine turning to her for permission to write confessionally; and yet what distinguishes her exploration of abjection and self-abnegation is that one never feels it is performative, as so much writing of selfhood is.

Here, Dominik thoroughly undoes that project in a film that not only re-objectifies Monroe but revels in her victimization and self-abnegation.