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Which of the following best fits in the blank?
Inventing Eastern Europe was a project of philosophical and geographical synthesis carried out by the men and women of the Enlightenment. Obviously, the lands of Eastern Europe were not in themselves invented or fictitious; those lands and the people who lived in them were always quite real, and did indeed lie relatively to the east of other lands that lay relatively to the west. The project of invention was not merely a matter of endowing those real lands with invented or mythological attributes, though such endowment certainly flourished in the eighteenth century. The Enlightenment's accounts were not flatly false or fictitious; on the contrary, in an age of increasingly ambitious traveling and more critical observation, those lands were more frequently visited and thoroughly studied than ever before. The work of invention lay in the synthetic association of lands, which drew upon both fact and fiction, to produce the general rubric of Eastern Europe. That rubric represented an aggregation of general and associative observations over a diverse domain of lands and peoples. It is in that sense that Eastern Europe is a cultural construction, that is,        of the Enlightenment.

a fictitious idea

an unconscious projection

a geographical mapping

an intellectual invention

a delirious dream

빈칸에는 “an intellectual invention”(지적 발명품)이 알맞다.
지문은 동유럽 개념을 “a project of philosophical and geographical synthesis”(철학적·지리적 종합의 기획)라고 했다. 땅은 실재하지만, 그것들을 하나로 묶은 “synthetic association”(종합적 연결)이 발명이라는 것이다.
“a fictitious idea”: 지문은 “not flatly false or fictitious”(완전히 거짓이거나 허구인 것은 아니다)라고 했다.
“an unconscious projection”: 계몽주의 지식인들의 의식적 기획이므로 무의식적 투사가 아니다.
“a geographical mapping”: 핵심은 지도 작성이 아니라 문화적으로 구성된 범주다.
“a delirious dream”: 관찰과 연구에 기초했으므로 헛된 꿈일 수 없다.