This thinker was wounded at age 19 while leading the IDF’s operation to rescue survivors of the sunken warship INS Eilat (“ay-LOT”). For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Paris-based feminist psychoanalyst, who painted the Eurydice series as a leader of New European Painting. This woman theorized a “matrixial” borderspace that allows for “subjectivity-as-encounter.”
ANSWER: Bracha L. Ettinger [or Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger]
[10e] Ettinger criticized “phallic” theories of this phenomenon in a book titled for its “matrixial” form. Laura Mulvey argued that women in Hollywood films serve as the object of this phenomenon.
ANSWER: gaze [or male gaze; accept The Matrixial Gaze]
[10m] Ettinger’s “matrix” is a substitute for this concept, which she critiqued for placing the feminine “outside” of the Symbolic. Julia Kristeva drew on Plato’s use of this Greek word translated as “interval” or “receptacle.”
ANSWER: khora [or chora]
<MB, Other Academic>