  Here, however, we seem to reach a deadlock. To Schapiro, Heidegger’s anticipatory denial of projection looks like an unconscious confession, what Freud called a denegation, that is, a disavowal that really confirms the truth of what it denies (the classic example of which is: “I have no idea what my dream meant, Dr. Freud, I only know it was not about my  mother!”).[94] To Heidegger, Schapiro would seem to have deceived himself in the “worst” way; by projecting projection onto Heidegger’s essay, Schapiro’s interpretation will have been led astray by its own maliciousness. Is there no way to avoid leaving the debate in such an unfriendly state, where the explicit avowal of “not A” is taken as an unconscious confession of “A,” no one’s motives remain above the hermeneutics of suspicion, and art interpretation threatens to collapse into the relativism of competing subjective  projections?[95]