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Peskin, H. (2012). Life-Guilt vs. Death-Guilt: Reply to Commentary. Psychoanal. Dial., 22:211-214.

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(2012). Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 22:211-214

Life-Guilt vs. Death-Guilt: Reply to Commentary

Harvey Peskin, Ph.D. Author Information

Ghislaine Boulanger's personal disclosure of self-disbelief brought back vividly a half-forgotten memory of my own while visiting a faraway cemetery. My memory perhaps presaged my analytic interest in dehumanization and, specifically, the distinction on which my article culminates: between humanizing guilt and civilizing guilt or, equivalently, between life-guilt and death-guilt. Boulanger's commentary allows me to elaborate this distinction. My reply is meant to cover not only the therapy cases I presented but perhaps Boulanger's own humanizing treatment of the severely traumatized.

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