Round 6: Tossup 13

This state of mind partly titles a book that considers the symbolism of the Madonna’s body in an essay on Giovanni Bellini. This state partly titles Judith Butler’s book on Hegel in 20th-century France, which discusses Alexandre Kojève’s view of it as the origin of self-consciousness. A vector of this state crosses a signifying chain in a namesake graph from the Écrits. Julia Kristeva outlined a semiotic approach to art in a book on this state “in Language.” The view of this state as a lack is opposed by a “factory” model of its production in (*) Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus. This state fuels a scapegoat mechanism in René Girard’s mimetic theory of it. (10[1]-5[1])Jacques Lacan’s objet petit a is the unattainable object of this state. For 10 points, what state of wanting is satisfied in Freud’s theory of wish fulfillment? ■END■ (10[2])

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