ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that what Freud called the bodily ego is projected into public space and I use the example of bathrooms to show how normative projections are gendered and sexualized as white. I offer notes toward a psychoanalytic of gendered and racialized space particular to modern, western architectural design and immortalized in the above cited parable by Jacques Lacan about “urinary segregation.” If, as Steve Pile (1996) contends, in his discussion of the body, city, space, and subjectivity, there is a means by which bodily egos are projected into public space, then it is crucially important to understand how this projection mirrors normative able-bodied coordinates and does not reflect, avow, or incorporate those who fall out of normative gender, sexual, and racialized alignment.
