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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One of the most famous, Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, who in his famous fictional letters, Letters from an American Farmer, he invented a character, if you've ever read that great text, called Farmer James.

其中最著名的一位是,J·赫克托·圣约翰·克雷夫科尔,在他的著作,《一个美国农民的信》中,他创造了一个形象,如果你读过这本书,农夫詹姆士

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