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A victim is not a subject. This bold statement is developed on the basis of two clinical situations: a severe illness and sexual abuse. Compassion and high levels of identification, in particular, are present in the subject’s abandonment. The silence that follows the traumatizing experience is associated with a brutal interruption of the Real, and it is also addressed in a sociohistorical perspective. Finally, the “exile of the intimate” (R. Gori and M.-J. Del Volgo) and the practice of debriefing are compared with a renewed risk of narcissistic injuries.