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flyingceleste

Passage 25 (25/63)

In 1977 the prestigious Ewha Women’s University in Seoul, Korea, announced the opening of the first women’s studies program in Asia. Few academic programs have ever received such public attention. In broadcast debates, critics dismissed the program as a betrayal of national identity, an imitation of Western ideas, and a distraction from the real task of national unification and economic development. Even supporters underestimated the program; they thought it would be merely another of the many Western ideas that had already proved useful in Asian culture, akin to airlines, electricity, and the assembly line. The founders of the program, however, realized that neither view was correct. They had some reservations about the applicability of Western feminist theories to the role of women in Asia and felt that such theories should be closely examined. Their approach has thus far (thus far: 迄今) yielded important critiques of Western theory, informed by the special experience of Asian women.

For instance, like the Western feminist critique of the Freudian model of the human psyche, the Korean critique finds Freudian theory culture-bound, but in ways different from those cited by Western theorists. The Korean theorists claim that Freudian theory assumes the universality of the Western nuclear, male-headed family and focuses on the personality formation of the individual, independent of (independent of: 不依赖...,独立于....) society. An analysis based on such assumptions could be valid for a highly competitive, individualistic society. In the Freudian family drama (a state, situation, or series of events involving interesting or intense conflict of forces), family members are assumed to be engaged in a Darwinian struggle against each other—father against son and sibling against sibling. Such a concept projects the competitive model of Western society onto human personalities. But in the Asian concept of personality there is no ideal attached to individualism or to the independent self. The Western model of personality development does not explain major characteristics of the Korean personality, which is social and group-centered. The “self” is a social being defined by and acting in a group, and the well-being of both men and women is determined by the equilibrium of the group, not by individual self-assertion (1: the act of asserting oneself or one's own rights, claims, or opinions 2: the act of asserting one's superiority over others). The ideal is one of interdependency.

In such a context, what is recognized as “dependency” in Western psychiatric terms is not, in Korean terms, an admission of weakness or failure. All this bears directly on the Asian perception of men’s and women’s psychology because men are also “dependent.” In Korean culture, men cry and otherwise easily show their emotions, something that might be considered a betrayal of masculinity in Western culture. In the kinship-based society of Korea, four generations may live in the same house, which means that people can be sons and daughters all their lives, whereas in Western culture, the roles of husband and son, wife and daughter, are often incompatible。

4.     It can be inferred from the passage that the broadcast media in Korea considered the establishment of the Ewha women’s studies program

(A) praiseworthy

(B) insignificant

(C) newsworthy

(D) imitative（C）

(E) incomprehensible

这题我根据前面提到的In broadcast debates, critics dismissed the program as a betrayal of national identity, an imitation of Western ideas, 选了D，为何是C？？没想通

7.     Which of the following statements about the Western feminist critique of Freudian theory can be supported by information contained in the passage?

(A) It recognizes the influence of Western culture on Freudian theory.

(B) It was written after 1977.

(C) It acknowledges the universality of the nuclear, male-headed family.

(D) It challenges Freud’s analysis of the role of daughters in Western society.（A）

(E) It fails to address the issue of competitiveness in Western society.

这题不知道怎么得出A得，我选了C，是因为like the Western feminist critique of the Freudian model of the human psyche, the Korean critique finds Freudian theory culture-bound, but in ways different from those cited by Western theorists. The Korean theorists claim that Freudian theory assumes the universality of the Western nuclear, male-headed family and focuses on the personality formation of the individual, independent of (independent of: 不依赖...,独立于....) society.

flyingceleste

顶，顶，顶

rakesun

4题，你引用的这段In broadcast debates, critics dismissed the program as a betrayal of national identity, an imitation of Western ideas，是批评者的观点，不是媒体的观点。呵呵。从它之前这句 Few academic programs have ever received such public attention.可以看出答案肯定是C

7题，like the Western feminist critique of the Freudian model of the human psyche, the Korean critique finds Freudian theory culture-bound, but in ways different from those cited by Western theorists. The Korean theorists claim that Freudian theory assumes the universality of the Western nuclear, male-headed family and focuses on the personality formation of the individual, independent of (independent of: 不依赖...,独立于....) society. 黄线部分是韩国学者和西方学者认识相同的地方，重点词是culture-bound，选项A是对这个词的改写。而从红线部分开始，说的是韩国学者认为西方学者没认识的地方，所以不能选C

flyingceleste

不好意思斑竹，这里想再多问下，第4题我搞懂了，谢谢，第7题还想再确定下，我估计是理解出了问题，虽然答案得方向没错，like the Western feminist critique of the Freudian model of the human psyche, the Korean critique finds Freudian theory culture-bound, but in ways different from those cited by Western theorists. 这段话是不是意思正如西方女权主义者对F模型得评论一样，韩国的评论也发现了F理论的文化束缚？

还有第7题的问题是不是说（Which of the following statements about the Western feminist critique of Freudian theory can be supported by information contained in the passage?）下面哪个关于西方女权主义者对F理论的评论能得到文中信息的支持？

rakesun

7题，那段话说的是这个意思，但重要的是红色部分开始，说韩国学者和西方学者的路子不同。嘿嘿。然后红色部分之后的那段话，描述的就是韩国学者是从什么角度得出自己结论的。也就是从The Korean theorists claim that Freudian theory 这里开始，说的韩国学者的看法。既韩国人认为F理论假设了什么什么，以此为假设的结论适用于西方社会但不适用韩国社会。这些统统都是韩国学者的看法，而且在这些文字里没有任何一处提到这个看法的某些部分与西方学者相同。所以文章原文直接确认的唯一相同的部分，就是culture-bound。

题目问的就是你说的意思。所以如果选C，那从文章中只能看到这是韩国学者的看法，而且这看法是接在diferent ways之后的。

flyingceleste

斑竹分析的够详细，非常感谢

amber0919