摘要
健全的人格是以个体性发展为前提的个体性与群体性的结合。西方文学生动而深刻地体现了西方文化以个体自由为重心的人文精神，对于生长在重群体而轻个体的传统文化之中的中国青年的健全人格培养，有着重要的借鉴意义。在教学中，要使青年人通过文化比较认清中国文化重群体而轻个体的传统的弊端，懂得如何从体现个体自由精神的西方文学中获得可贵的借鉴，同时也要认识到西方个体自由传统的实质及其消极因素，以及经过现代诠释后的中国重群体的传统文化所具有的积极意义。
Healthy personalities can be developed on the basis of a good urderstanding of individualism and collectivism.Western Literature,well embodying individualism of Wertern cultures,is very instructive to young Chinese who are brought up in a society emphasizing collectivism and ignoring individualism.In Western litera- ture teaching, one should make the students understand the positive and negative factors of both Western indiviudalism and Chinese collectivism to help them develop healthy personalities.
