The idea of ​​“surviving oneself” depends on the concepts of trauma and above all of oneself, in a situation in which said trauma erases oneself for an indefinite period of time. Brison presents the self in three intertwined parts: the embodied self, the self as narrative, and the autonomous self. Each of these parts of the self is largely dependent on the individual's society, culture, and interactions with other people. The embodied self represents the self in conjunction with the physical body, which our society separates from the self, to constitute a soul or personality, and also assigns gender to certain traits. Trauma dissolves this separation between body and mind because violence leads the traumatized to face their own mortality. They must see their body as an object because their abuser treats it as an object. Trauma is so harmful because the self cannot exert any power; the interaction between the abuser and the victim, essentially a social situation, deprives the victim of a voice, because the abuser ignores it, of a personality, because it is of no importance to the abuser, and of a self, because the aggressor uses the body as an object, and the body plays a more central role in the interaction than the self. Brison quotes Cathy Winkler in saying that rape is "social murder" because the rapist's role in the interaction defines the victim through his actions that take away her sense of self. Any control the victim has over their body is taken away by the rapist. The consequences of this trauma include loss of control over physiological functions, such as emotions, and incapacity due to anxiety; the body and mind are out of balance, which leads to the victim being stigmatized by society... in the center of the card... it doesn't change, that person's self changes. The trauma victim must regain control of their life through the collaboration of others. In this way autonomy is linked to the victim's dependence on those around him. Dependence on others for autonomy is destroyed when the victim is traumatized; they lose faith in those around them and lose the ability to connect with humanity. Related to the idea of ​​the narrative self, the autonomous person that existed before the trauma dies and the new self must become autonomous through narration to others. In this way the self as independent, the self as dependent on others, and the self as physical being are integrated with each other and cannot be divided. Just as a self cannot exist without the context of its society, society cannot exist without the selves that constitute its existence.