Steingart agrees with the basic premise of most of the authors, best stated by Sandler, that “conceiving of an object relationship as the energic investment of an object is inadequate and simplistic.” Nevertheless, he points out that Freud's economic viewpoint does address the essential element of intensity of object relationship experiences—something he sees as missing in the new proposals. “I do not believe any theory of object relations will be serviceable that does not include a way to