Shengold's predominant reaction to Grinstein's On Sigmund Freud's Dreams is the feeling that a great man has been disparaged and reduced to his Oedipus complex. While making pro forma acknowledgments of merit, he stresses defects of the book, among them the inclusion of irrelevant data, questionable reliance on Grinstein's own associations to dream details, and faulty analysis of literary works alluded to in the manifest content of the dreams.