Difference and DisavowalDifference and Disavowal is a major rethinking of a central tenet of Freudian psychoanalysisthe repression theory. It centers on fundamental issues in practice and theory, beginning with a central conundrum for clinical psychoanalysis: how to understand apparently analyzable patients who resist the essential therapeutic measure of analysisinterpretation. The author finds the answer in a revision and expansion of Freud's theory of fetishism. Freud