Kohut appeared as a master of metapsychology in these lectures. Freud's metapsychology has faced criticism, mainly from ego psychology. His enormously ambitious goal was to replace Freudian metapsychology with his own version of psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic metapsychology is concerned with the fundamental structure and concepts Freudian theory. In 1985, he founded the Applied Metapsychology International (AMI). The psychology is about the psyche; the metapsychology is about the psychology. Metapsychology allows people to recognize that they are in control of their own experiences.