So it was a theme of the period and Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle contributes to this theme. Brooks himself likes to -- refer to the text of Beyond the Pleasure Principle as itself a master plot-- in other words as having a certain fictive character.

所以不难发现，这就是弗洛伊德时期的一大主题,而那本《超越快乐原则》也就响应了这个主题，布鲁克斯,本人很喜欢引用《超越快乐原则》中的片段-,换句话说，就好像有一个虚构的角色。

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It would not be out of place to refer to the mess that Armstrong finds himself in as a massive metaphoric class-action suit brought about by disgusted onlookers.

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The issue -- I would refer you to a leading member of Congress in the Republican Party who, himself, called this politics.

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Perhaps the biggest misconception about Fenn whom some locals refer to as Santa Fe's Indiana Jones is that he was a treasure hunter himself.

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