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繁衍对停滞 GENERATIVITY V. STAGNATION
In this book the emphasis is on the childhood stages, otherwisethe section on generativity would of necessity be the centralone, for this term encompasses the evolutionary developmentwhich has made man the teaching and instituting as well as thelearning animal. The fashionable insistence on dramatizing thedependence of children on adults often blinds us to the dependenceof the older generation on the younger one. Mature manneeds to be needed, and maturity needs guidance as well asencouragement from what has been produced and must betaken care of.
如果本书不是将重点放在童年阶段的话,那么我将会重点论述这一部分,因为繁衍这个术语包含了让人类发展成社会性动物的进化发展历程。时下流行强调儿童对于成人的依赖,这经常使我们看不到老一代对于年轻一代的依赖。成人需要被别人需要,需要得到指引,需要从那些刚被生产出来、必须受到照顾的对象那里得到鼓励。
Generativity, then, is primarily the concern in establishingand guiding the next generation, although there are individualswho, through misfortune or because of special and genuinegifts in other directions, do not apply this drive to their ownoffspring. And indeed, the concept generatively is meant toinclude such more popular synonyms as productivity andcreativity, which, however, cannot replace it.
繁衍,首先意味着生育和指引下一代,尽管有一些个体因为不幸或者在其他方面存在特殊的天赋而不愿把繁衍的动力用于生育后代。繁衍还意味着生产能力和创造能力,但这些都不能代替繁衍。