Round 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[1])a member (15[1])of the title group in a book that proposes (*) women are the Other, The Second Sex. (10[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. For 10 points, in what country was existentialism pioneered by Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre? ■END■

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