Selbtzerfleischen is a unique Germany word, and you could be walking around for ten years, and never hear it spoken....in terms of a German describing himself/herself and their personal feelings.
The true definition? Selbtzerfleischen is basically a problem of significance has anchored itself to a German, and they can't really move ahead, or resolve this problem.....so they dwell in pity or discomfort.....day after day....with their mind focused on the issue but it's merely dragging them down. Some Germans will stand and admit this issue, but even if you were a good friend, or neighbor....offering a fine ending to it or some resolution, it may not be what they want to accept. So the problem simply dwells on.
I was reading commentary today over the CDU meeting for a new asylum/immigration policy. The party would like to disengage itself from Merkel and the past five years. But the meeting ended....mostly with no real outcome. So the German guy wrote his frustration down....and noted his selbstzerfleischen issue. It'd be nice if migration and asylum just resolved itself and people could progress on without this thorny issue. But they can't.
Across Germany? Out of 82-million? I'd take a guess that one out of seven German adults have a frustration over the migration and asylum issue, with the political mechanism, more or less....unable to really find any constructive middle-ground to bring the voting public back to the standard two parties (CDU and SPD). The likelihood in 2021 that the combined voting strength will be less than 45-percent of the voting public? It's a fairly high chance now. People are disconnected and feel no real resolution coming.
So if you have a German sitting with you in a pub, and their whine goes on and on....with no resolution making them happy....it's plain old selbstzerfleischen.
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