nemesismn.

1938 S. Rosenzweig in H. A. Murray Explor. in Personality vi. 588 The psycho-analyst might appropriately call the turning of aggression upon the individual's own self ‘nemesism’ from the name of the Greek goddess of vengeance. Nemesism could then be thought of as the counterpart of narcism.

1945 J. C. Flügel Man, Morals & Society vii. 78 We propose here to adopt Rosenzweig's suggestion and to use the term ‘nemesism’ as an alternative and technical term for ‘aggression turned against the self’.

1951 D. C. McClelland Personality iv. xiii. 514 It seems hard to understand..why self-inflicted pain should reduce anxiety. Yet the phenomenon of self-aggression, masochism, or nemesism, as it has sometimes been called, is well known and has been extensively treated in the literature.