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There would be no reason to review this autobiography were it not an excellent example of the obsolete wholesale rejection of psychoanalysis. Moll was known to the world some fifty years ago as the discoverer of the instincts of contrectation ['spooning' Ed.] and detumescence. He is of Freud's generation, at one time knew Charcot in Paris and Bernheim in Nancy, and devoted his life to psychotherapy. When Freud startled the world with his discoveries, Moll, with many other contemporary investigators, felt their own findings undermined and continued their activities in different schools. In part they based their further work on exploded premises and they had to defend it against the import of the new psychoanalytic theories. This resulted in much foolish talk devoid of good will and dignity.
'In my opinion Freud's sexual interpretations of dreams are wrong, likewise his Oedipus complex and similar ideas. One of these false statements is that during a certain time of his life the boy hates his father and loves his mother. It is commonly observed that in many cases the boy prefers to kiss his mother rather than his father's whiskers and Freud generalized such events.' Isn't this great? Barbasol ending the Oedipus calamity!
'Although unusual fuss was made about psychoanalysis I will be brief about it. I have always fought it and in my opinion