Packet 1: Tossup 18

In this country, the slogan “under the paving stones, the beach!” was coined by the Situationist International. To dispel hallucinations of crablike creatures, a thinker from this country (-5[1])saw a (-5[1])psychoanalyst from this country who theorized the “mirror stage.” An author from this country (15[1])posited “one is not born, but becomes” (15[2])a (15[1])member (15[2])of the title group in a book (15[1])that proposes (*) women are the Other, (10[1])The Second Sex. (10[4]-5[1])An author from this (10[1])country argued humans choose the meaning of their lives by claiming “existence precedes essence” in his book Being and Nothingness. (10[1])For 10 points, in what country was existentialism pioneered by Simone (10[1])de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul (10[1])Sartre? (10[1])■END■ (10[5])

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