Torture violently sets the victim face to face with his or her physical and symbolic death, which is entirely controlled by an ill-intended other. Its true objective is the person’s desubjectification, accomplished by the threat of destroying the victim’s body or by the severing of the ties linking the victim to the group to which she or he identifies. Because the fright and the pain brought about by torture overwhelms the person’s ability to code the event, the experience is indescribable. The unspeakable character of torture-driven trauma often keeps the victim under the torturer’s influence, keeping him or her from re-integrating in society as a full subject. However, narrative-constructing and narrative transmission can initiate a form of bereavement of the tortured self and thus participate in the victim’s mental reconfiguration which, in turn, can facilitate his or her reintegration into the world as a subject.