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 andAllegoresis.- 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.