During the same period when I was first teaching this course, a veritable six-foot shelf of diatribes against literary theory was being written in the public sphere.

我一开始教这门课的时候，文学理论遭到了,公开地谩骂。

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A lot of Freudians have tried and made a research program of extending their ideas scientifically, bringing them to robust scientific tests.

许多精神分析的支持者们,都试图建立研究项目,来科学地扩展他们的理论观点，使得这些理论观点得到了大量的科学研究。

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Trotsky's Literature and Revolution is a brilliant book, an attack on many things and a defense of certain other things, but in particular and very painfully an attack on the formalists.

列夫，托洛斯基的文学与革命非常精彩，它攻击了许多当时的理论，同时也维护了一些，但是它特别猛烈地攻击了形式主义者。

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As far as I can see,the best option for the body theorist at this point is to add--no surprises here--a no branching rule.

据我所知，肉体理论者最好的选择就是,毫无意外地，是加上一条无分支规则。

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And the wrong theory of the emotions is beautifully illustrated in the television and movie series Star Trek.

错误情感理论,被漂亮地诠释,在电视及电影星际迷航中。

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Instead of trying to pursue those alternative theories in a systematic fashion, let me just gesture toward some of the things that seem to be missing from that kind of life.

我们不去系统地研究,那些理论，在此我要例举一些,那种生活似乎所缺少的东西。

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They should say we were simplifying unduly.

他们应该说我们过度地简化了人格理论。

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But then because children, according to Freud, don't have a good sense of the boundary between their mind and the world, they think their father can tell that they're plotting to kill him and they figure their father is now angry at them.

但是，据弗洛伊德的理论，由于儿童无法很好地,在心理和现实之间划清界限，即他们认为自己的父亲,能够看出他们在密谋弑父,而且他们还认为父亲非常生他们的气。

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We have to understand the way in which what we do and say, what we write in our papers and articles, is grounded in theoretical premises which, if we don't come to terms with them, we will simply naively reproduce without being fully aware of how we're using them and how, indeed, they are using us.

我们所为，所说，和在论文中所写的内容，是以一些理论，为前提的，如果不接受这些理论，那我们就不过是天真地重复,根本不知道,我们是如何利用它们的。

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The fact of the matter is, demon theory doesn't do a very good job of explaining disease, while germ theory does do a good job.

事实上,恶魔理论并不能很好地解释疾病的问题,而微生物理论却能将问题分析得很透彻

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The key to personal identity not the only thing a soul theorist can say but the natural thing for a soul theorist to say the key to personal identity is having the very same soul.

人格同一性的关键,不仅是灵魂理论家会说,而且他们是很自然地认为,人格同一性的关键,是有相同的灵魂。

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