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 (15[1])semiotic approach to art in a book on this state “in Language.” The view of this (-5[1])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 (-5[1])mimetic theory of it. Jacques Lacan’s objet petit a is the unattainable object of this state. For 10 points, what state of wanting is satisfied (10[1])in Freud’s theory of wish fulfillment? ■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: desire [or word forms like desiring; or désir; accept wunsch or wishing before “wish” is read; accept desiring-production; accept Desire in Language; accept Subjects of Desire; reject “love” or “Eros”]
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Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Power %Neg %Avg. Buzz
2026 NAFTA at Stanford01/17/20264100%25%0%98.75
2026 NAFTA at UBC01/17/20262100%0%50%127.50
2025 NAFTA Online02/14/2026475%25%50%114.33
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt02/14/20263100%33%33%114.00
2025 NAFTA at Toronto09/13/20255100%20%40%123.60
2025 NAFTA at Maryland09/27/20255100%0%40%132.00
2025 NAFTA at Harvard10/04/20253100%0%33%130.67
2025 NAFTA at Oxford10/11/20254100%25%25%121.50
2025 NAFTA at Chicago11/08/20256100%33%17%96.83
2025 NAFTA at Columbia11/08/20255100%20%60%118.20
2025 NAFTA at Richmond12/20/2025250%0%50%111.00