Gately, the wraith, and the figurants (p. 841)
Gately tries especially hard now not to explore why it never occurred to him to step in and pull the M.P. off his mother, even after he could bench-press more than the M.P. […] The similarity of her hurt sounds in the kitchen and living room and her sex-sounds through the asbestos fiberboard bedroom wall troubles Gately, though, when he remembers now, and is one reason why he fends off remembering, when awake.
Context
The mechanics of suppression stated exactly: what's fended off, why, and the loophole — "when awake" — through which everything in this scene arrives anyway, bubbling up in pain-and-fever sleep.