Falling in love with

The following text recounts "The Sandman"story written by E. T. A. Hoffmann. Does the highlighted sentence imply "... a pocket spy-glass that he uses to spy on Professor Spalanzani in the house opposite, who he will later fall in love with his daughter Olympia"?

Text (from Art and Psychoanalysis by Maria Walsh):

But Offenbach’s opera based on The Tales of Hoffman captivated him, and it is here that we find a more literal relation to Freud’s ‘The Uncanny’, in which he interpreted Hoffman’s tale of ‘The Sandman’ in which a mother tells her son, Nathaniel, that the Sandman will come at night and steal his eyes while he is sleeping, in terms of castration anxiety. The boy associates the Sandman with Coppelius the lawyer, who visits his father at night, and he fantasises that this man is trying to steal his eyes. As an adult student, Nathaniel is revisited by these nightmares on meeting the optician Coppola, from whom he buys a pocket spy-glass that he uses to spy on Professor Spalanzani in the house opposite, falling in love with his ‘daughter’ Olympia, who is actually a clockwork doll. The story has many twists ...