Urinary Segregation
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Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference · Patricia Gherovici · p.23
**TRANSAMERICA**
Theoretical move: The passage uses Lacan's concept of "urinary segregation" to frame contemporary transgender bathroom debates as a structural impasse of sexual difference, then critically engages Baudrillard's reading of transsexuality as simulation/indifferent simulacrum to argue that trans subjects are not escaping sexual difference but are rather trapped within it — a point that psychoanalysis must take seriously against postmodern celebrations of groundless sign-multiplication.
Lacan in a 1957 essay where he called it 'urinary segregation,' noting that 'public life [is] subject [to] laws of urinary segregation'