Introduction -- Part I: Representations of Trauma.-Trauma and Literature: The Postmodern Option - Franz Kafka and Cormac Mccarthy -- Cultural Trauma and the Media -- Television: A Traumatic Culture -- Popular Trauma Culture: The Pain of Others Between Holocaust Tropes and Kitsch-Sentimental Melodrama -- The Trauma of Modernism: Between Existential Indeterminacy and Allegoresis -- Before Recognition: On the Aesthetics of Aftermath -- From Hiroshima to Fukushima: Comics and Animation as Subversive Agents of Memory in Japan -- Performative Recollection: Koizumi Meiro Representations of Kamikaze Pilots and the Trauma of Asia-Pacific War in Japan -- Architecture and Trauma -- Art as the Transport-Station of Trauma -- Part II: Theory of Trauma -- The Trauma of Philosophy -- Irresponsible Nonsense: An Epistemological and Ethical Critique of Postmodern Trauma Theory.-The Death of the Witness in the Era of Testimony: Primo Levi and Georges Perec -- Walking, Walking Out and Walking Through: Transitional Space and Traumatic Time -- Trauma and Monotheism: Sigmund Freud's Moses and Monotheism and the Possibility of Writing a Traumatic History of Religion -- The Crisis of Manhood -- Laius Complex and Shocks of Maternality: With Franz Kafka and Sylvia Plath -- Fear, Trauma, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Clinical, Neurobiological, and Cultural Perspectives -- Part III: Case Studies of Collective Trauma -- Some Reflections on Transmitting the Memory of the Holocaust and its Implications, Particularly in Israel -- Placing Collective Trauma within its Social Context: the Case of 9/11 Attacks -- Masculinity, Spirituality, and Male Wartime Sexual Trauma -- Killing the Killer: Rampage and Gun Rights as a Syndrome -- Loss, Traumatic Bereavement and Mourning Culture: The Israel Example -- Fear and Silence in Burma and Indonesia: Comparing Two National Tragedies and Two Individual Outcomes of Trauma -- Conclusion: Trauma and Culture: How Trauma can Shape the Human Mind.