Subjective feeling of having committed an error, offense or sin; unpleasant feeling of self-criticism. These result from acts, impulses, or thoughts contrary to one's personal conscience.
    

concept

A dark trace : Sigmund Freud on the sense of guilt / Herman Westerink.

Culpability / by Thom Ferrier.

Justin Green's Binky Brown sampler.

The battle of the conscience : a psychiatric study of the inner working of the conscience / [Edmund Bergler].

Guilt and desire : religious attitudes and their pathological derivatives / Antoine Vergote ; translated by M.H. Wood.

Galleries and Reading Room

Library

Shop

Café

We're running paid user research studies to improve Wellcome Collection online

Take part in research

Guilt

Catalogue

A dark trace : Sigmund Freud on the sense of guilt / Herman Westerink.

Culpability / by Thom Ferrier.

Justin Green's Binky Brown sampler.

The battle of the conscience : a psychiatric study of the inner working of the conscience / [Edmund Bergler].

Guilt and desire : religious attitudes and their pathological derivatives / Antoine Vergote ; translated by M.H. Wood.