In his final word in this heated exchange, Strozier dismisses the relevance of Donna Orange's (2003) comments and notes how peculiar were the comments of Robert Stolorow (2003). Strozier's point is that Kohut warmly supported the work of Stolorow, but he notes, again, that the essential concept of so–called intersubjective theory is entirely based in Kohut's ideas from the 1970s.