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In contemporary culture, culpability has shifted from a sentiment expressed toward another to something experienced within oneself. The psychological “treatment” of culpability has not disappeared, but it has been transformed into new subjective forms of guilt, more archaic and closer to shame, which do not necessarily stem from a specific event but from an anxiety based on broader feelings of inadequacy. The old image of the “guilty person” has been replaced by that of the “wounded person” : the marked presence of the theme of woundedness has thus become an important dimension of contemporary spiritual development. The voluntarism of woundedness, and a paramount concern for “healing” damaged self-esteem, have thus replaced the old moral voluntarism.