José Pedro Cabrera

This proposal aims to shed light on a recently described problematic dimension in the field of trauma studies, namely, the absence of an explicit ethical position consistent with the demands arising from the field of research itself. The bibliographical research has shown that until now this need has been addressed through Levinasian ethics; however, it is necessary to carefully examine this option given the possible theoretical incommensurability between Levinas’s ideas and the conceptual bases of trauma studies, which are based on theoretical foundations of a psychoanalytic nature, such as the concept of trauma itself. Given this possible theoretical incompatibility, the possibility of considering a proposal on ethics from the field of psychoanalysis itself is proposed, such as that formulated by Lacan, which could help resolve the conceptual incommensurability between an ethics inspired by Levinas and the theoretical foundations that support Trauma studies.