Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.

  • -- Lionel Trilling 特里林

每一种神经症都是一种原始的法律程序,在这种程序中,被告进行起诉,作出判决并执行判决:所有这些都是为了不让其他人执行同样的程序。

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The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

经典只是原始文学。它们与原始机械、原始音乐和原始医学属于同一类。

To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.

如果被指控“通灵”,就会被当作口技演员的真人秀节目而不予理会,因为没有自己的想法而受到嘲笑。

It's a pleasure to play my sister because everything I've accused her of my whole life, I can now re-enact before her eyes.

扮演我妹妹是一件很开心的事,因为我这辈子一直指责她的一切,现在我都能在她眼前重现了。

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

没有自由,就没有艺术;艺术只活在它强加于自己的约束之下,而死于其他一切的约束之下。

I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.

我反对用法律手段来解决科学或科学行为的问题。

Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.

当有判断力的人匍匐前进,摸索前进时,积极的人就会毫不沮丧地发出肯定的声音。

Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.

不幸的是,许多人忘记了法官只是穿着长袍的律师。

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.

进步不仅给未来带来了新的可能性,而且带来了新的限制。

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

每个人都抱怨他的记忆力,却没有人抱怨他的判断力。

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

唯一要知道的是如何利用你的神经症。

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

神经症是不能容忍模棱两可。