Sutherland congratulates Jones on producing this 'labor of love' without making it mere hero-worship. Jones was able to portray both Freud's genius and the irrational and psychoneurotic components in his love and hate. Sutherland points out how great was Freud's achievement in analyzing himself to the point of seeing the meaning of his own Oedipus complex. He suggests that among the factors that enabled Freud to accomplish this were the particular structure of Freud's family; the fact that Freud was such a good dreamer; Freud's ability to use his relationship with Fliess in much the same manner as patients may use the transference; the death of Freud's father, which acted as a stimulus in the mobilization