Today's meeting is a continuation of the discussion, which began in December 1992, at the meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association in New York. At that time, Dr. Hoffman presented his report of the Ernst Kris Study Group project on Superego Analysis. This project was an attempt to use psychoanalytic data, derived from cases that had been studied by members of the Kris Study Group, to formulate the concept of superego analysis and, at the same time, to test some central aspects of the psychoanalytic theory of the superego.

In his literature review, Dr. Hoffman explains the significance of the concept of superego analysis. Dr. Hoffman distinguishes superego