A book by Slavoj Žižek that includes his famous analysis of toilet designs as expressions of German, French, and English ideological attitudes towards excrement and ideology.
"In a traditional German toilet, the hole into which shit disappears after we flush is right at the front, so that shit is first laid out for us to sniff and inspect for traces of illness. In the typical French toilet, on the contrary, the hole is at the back, i.e. shit is supposed to disappear as qu"