Round 6: Tossup 13

A book partly titled for this state of mind considers the symbolism of the Madonna’s body in an essay on Giovanni Bellini. This mental state partly titles Judith Butler’s book on Hegel in 20th-century France, which analyzes Alexandre Kojève’s view of it as the root of self-consciousness. A vector of this state crosses a signifying chain in a namesake graph in 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 (10[1])of it. Jacques Lacan’s objet petit a is the unattainable object of this state. For 10 points, what state of wanting (-5[1])is satisfied in Freud’s theory of wish fulfillment? ■END■ (0[1])

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