In other words, the reduction of excitation is obviously something that the pleasure principle is all about.

换句话说快乐原则关注的不就是,减少兴奋吗？

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Now that's precisely the question that Freud asked himself in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, a text which begins with a consideration of trauma victims.

这就是弗洛伊德,在他的《超越快乐原则》中提到的核心问题，整篇文章以对创伤患者的考虑开始。

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Bentham arrives at this principle by the following line of reasoning: We're all governed by pain and pleasure, they are our sovereign masters, and so any moral system has to take account of them.

边沁是这样论证这一原则的：,我们都受到痛苦和快乐的支配，苦乐是我们至高无上的主宰，因此任何道德体系都应考虑到它们。

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I would suggest that in the context of Beyond the Pleasure Principle we could re-title Tony the Tow Truck as The Bumpy Road to Maturity.

我建议我们可以在《超越快乐原则》的基础上,将《托尼的拖车》改写为《通往成熟的颠簸之路》

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It could be called something which is a kind of pleasure and which therefore could be subsumed under the pleasure principle and would obviate the need for a theory of the death drive as Freud develops it in Beyond the Pleasure Principle.

可它也可看作是一种快乐,所以可以被归结到快乐原则中去,并且排除了弗洛伊德在《超越快乐原则》中阐述的,死亡驱动所需的理论基础。

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How does this compulsion to return to the traumatic event in any way correspond to or submit itself to explanation in terms of the pleasure principle?"

这些强制性回到创伤回忆中的行为,有是怎样以,快乐原则的形式体现出来的呢？

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All of this we can associate with the pleasure principle.

这些我们都可以和快乐原则联系起来。

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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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