Psychologically: The torture chamber in which one is himself indicates as torture that one suffers from fear and feelings of guilt because of an action for which one cannot answer before himself, - it must not necessarily concern an objectively bad action, not seldom stands behind it also a too strict conscience which sees guilt and failure also where no occasion exists for it. Popular: (European ones).: see torture chamber: one is afraid of the results of an action. (See also torture)