The sense I indicated has been understood. Ergo, my edits are in fact a sensible statement. The correct conclusion, either way, was to delete the sentence as it was irrelevant. The separate comment about psycholgical literature whether contradictory or oxymoronic renders, again, the same sense and conclusion.

The wider issue on whether "psycholgical literature" is contradictory or oxymoronic (the  same thing) is also met, whether understood by the editor or not - serendipitous for that person I suppose, or good intuition at least.