Abstract

This contribution aims to describe trauma from Marc Richir’s non-standard genetic phenomenology. To achieve this goal, this inquiry will have three parts. First, we will describe the methodological perspective through which we will study trauma, i.e., genetic phenomenology. Second, it will describe the relationship between two fundamental genetic moments to understand this experience: the phenomenological unconscious and the symbolic unconscious. Finally, it will develop a genetic phenomenology of trauma that will reveal its main characteristic: the sense abortion.