"vicarious satisfaction" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the satisfaction or pleasure experienced through someone else's actions or achievements. It can be used in situations where someone is indirectly feeling a sense of fulfillment through the actions of another person. Example: While John was unable to attend the concert, he experienced vicarious satisfaction through his sister's excitement and detailed description of the performance.
From the sacrament of penance came the idea, most fully developed by St. Anselm, that the death of Christ was a vicarious satisfaction rendered for humankind.
Hence the vicarious satisfaction from the actions of those such as the Graff bandits.
A hamburger star like Ben Stiller is someone whose struggles and triumphs give us vicarious satisfaction.
Seeking a vicarious satisfaction for her instincts, Judy now puts on a play called "Rockabye" and falls in love with its author.
Indeed, the doctrine of the Atonement by the vicarious satisfaction of Christ's death has seldom been expressed as amply as it was in the hymns and catechisms of both the Lutheran and the Reformed churches.
Watching Arab pundits criticize Arab governments, Israel or the United States — common fare on Arab satellite television — is great vicarious satisfaction for ordinary men and women who live in political cultures that deny them serious opportunities for free speech.
In Judaism vicarious atonement has little importance.
I do think the audiences that I saw Mandy with for the first time in Sundance were certainly along for the ride and I could hear a kind of vicarious appreciation or satisfaction of the terror that Red experiences.
I know of women who have really mooned, and for years, over some such glamorous shadow, and it is highly possible that my own immunity is due to my sensual satisfaction, even vicarious, in such things as potato chips and Beluga caviar.
But there's more to the vicarious experience of a full-spectrum collapse than the simple satisfaction of knowing that it really annoyed some jerks.
The presumably sober viewer, alone at her screen, gets either the satisfaction of sitting in judgment or the pleasure of safe, vicarious participation.
