本文從三個層面遞進分析了弗蘭茲．卡夫卡第一次世界大戰期間的作品與同時期創傷醫學相關話語間的聯結。第一，本文追溯了創傷性事件和一再作為題材的戰後創傷症狀。第二，指出並強調了創傷與記憶的互相作用在卡夫卡作品情節中的重要性。第三，闡釋了卡夫卡如何巧妙地以治癒話語來表現行文。卡夫卡借助文學特有的虛擬性和記憶潛能，為同時期的創傷治療帶來了獨一無二的輔助方案。而要理解這一高度，不僅需要從戰爭文學的意義上深度剖析卡夫卡的作品，對於該文學本身也需給予新的定義。

This article investigates the nexus between Franz Kafka's WWI stories and the contemporary discourse on trauma medicine at three levels. First, it traces traumatic events and the symptoms of war trauma as recurrent motifs; second, it highlights the role of the interplay between trauma and memory for the narrative organization of Kafka's plots; third, it demonstrates how Kafka, invests his stories with a quasi-therapeutic discourse. Kafka's falls back on the specific imaginative and mnemonic potential of literature to devise a highly original add-on to contemporary trauma therapy. This achievement not only calls for the inclusion of his stories into the category of war literature, but for a redefinition of that category itself.