I find Anastasia's blog impressive. The two works selected clearly reveal an innate tension of self-sabotage. In the example of Round Table, the goal of 18 “headless” creatures is to obtain a "head" (the ball), but their behavioral patterns work against their own objective. In the meantime, another work called The Helpless Robot, shows an internal conflict within a robot: one part of it desires to get help from the audience, while another part discourages the assistance. The two interesting works remind me of a few classic cases that frequently happen in our lives: rejecting help, procrastination, and perfectionism.
Basically, self-sabotage is a split creaturely quality. It refers to a conflict between intention and behavior, especially the pair of protective intention and destructive behavior.
It is possible to visualize the quality with a self-deleting writing program. To be more specific, this creature attempts to write an essay, but when it has completed several sentences, it deletes them after a few seconds due to dissatisfaction. In this case, it will never finish the essay, no matter how much time or effort it invests.