OTTO PÖTZL who died recently at the age of eighty-five, was an early proponent of psychoanalysis in his younger years when he was an assistant to the Nobel prize winner, Wagner-Jauregg. In 1917 he published his famous article, Experimentally Induced Dream Pictures in Their Relation to Indirect Vision. This article is quoted by Freud in The Interpretation of Dreams and became the starting point for the experimental work of Charles Fisher and others. Another article of interest for psychoanalysts was On the Metapsychology of the 'déjà vu' (Imago 1926).

From 1928 to 1945 he was Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the