0 difficult and painful feelings caused by the fact that you are still alive after a situation in which other people died:
Moreover, it would not be difficult to show that a similar repudiation of survivor guilt has occurred in many other contexts and areas of inquiry.
And what in their work, and in that of numerous other recent commentators, including leading psychiatrists, takes the place of survivor guilt?
We have seen that the concept of survivor guilt has been inseparable from the notion of the subject's unconscious identification with the other.
Thereafter, survivor guilt could be safely omitted from the checklists and other instruments used to assess the nature and incidence of posttraumatic stress.
This does not mean that survivor guilt has simply disappeared from the official lexicon of trauma.
A mimetic concept of the traumatic experience and the concept of survivor guilt have gone hand in hand.
Rather, a history of the concept of survivor guilt shows that the latter has been inseparable from the notion of identification.
His concept of survivor guilt also depended on the idea that the survivor of trauma identifies with the dead.
