That makes the subject matter that we'll be discussing this week, as I say, as much a part of the history of criticism as it is of literary theory.

这样一来，我们这周的内容就变得至关重要了，就像我说过的那样，我们将学习到文学理论方面,乃至评论史上重要的一章。

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There are so many different aspects that we can get into and this underlying theory motivates a lot of what we do.

我们能从很多不同的方面来切入,这一基本的理论激发了我们的研究欲望

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And the claim that psychoanalysis proves itself by being- by its tremendous success in curing mental illness is also almost certainly not true.

对于精神分析,通过在治疗心理疾病方面获得的巨大成功,证明了其理论的正确性,这个观点当然也是不对的。

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It's a course which is absolutely fascinating in all sorts of ways, and it has one very important thing in common with literary theory: that is to say, literary criticism is, too, perpetually concerned with the definition of literature.

这门课在各方面都很棒，而且它与文学理论有一个重要的相似之处：,即文学评论也永远会关注，文学的定义问题。

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Others would want to jettison that aspect of Freudian theory.

其他人则想要抛弃精神分析理论,在这个方面的内容。

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But there's a different problem a theory could have.

但一个理论还可能会存在其他方面的问题。

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There are two problems with the scientific theory.

理论是否科学可以由两个方面进行判断。

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