the supposed transmigration at death of the soul of a human being or animal into a new body of the same or a different species
While productive labour is changing the means of production into constituent elements of a new product, their value undergoes a metempsychosis.
Paul Virilio turns to the metaphysics of metempsychosi--the transmigration of souls--to suggest the tension of the loading of the soul on to various metabolic vehicles
defined as "the transmigration of souls"