ABSTRACT Henry James’s novel Washington Square demonstrates original ontological insights about the power of slow thinking and represents, along with later trends in psychoanalysis and existential philosophy, the need for stories about hard-won maturity. James’s “jilted heiress” is too slow to realize that the man she loves is a trickster, even though her father warns her against him. Yet by validating his heroine’s slowness over her authoritarian father’s quick judgment, James makes a case that slow thinking expresses genuine self-development. I argue James’s narrative ontology presents us with an underanalyzed form of communication—the relative speed of human reasoning—that must be interpreted alongside other indirect communication strategies in James’s oeuvre, such as silence and lying. I also argue that James associates his heroine’s slow thinking with her developing empathy.

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“时间的报应”：亨利·詹姆斯在华盛顿广场上缓慢的思考和同情的判断

摘要亨利·詹姆斯（Henry James）的小说《华盛顿广场》（Washington Square）展示了关于慢速思维能力的原始本体论见解，并与后来的精神分析和生存哲学趋势一起表明了对来之不易的故事的需求。詹姆斯的“跳脱女继承人”太慢了，以至于没有意识到她所爱的男人是个骗子，尽管她的父亲警告她不要这样做。然而，通过验证女主人公对独裁父亲的快速判断的迟钝，詹姆斯提出了一个案例，即缓慢的思维表达了真正的自我发展。我认为詹姆斯的叙事本体论向我们展示了一种沟通方式，而对这种沟通方式的分析不足，即人类推理的相对速度，这必须与詹姆斯的作品中的其他间接沟通策略（例如沉默和撒谎）一起解释。