 Jesse Prinz (2004) tries to introduce correct intentionality into the Jamesian idea that emotional experience is awareness of a gut reaction by making the gut reaction indicate the instantiation of a “core relational theme”. The notion of a core relational theme, which originates with Richard S. Lazarus (1993), is the idea of a way that benefit or harm is mediated to the emotional subject from the environment. Lazarus gives a list of 15 core relational themes (see 1993 p. 122), among which are a demeaning offense against me and mine (anger), facing uncertain, existential threat (anxiety), and having failed to live up to an ego-ideal (shame). Such themes seem to be types of events or states of affairs that impinge on some concern of the subject. Prinz envisions the sequence that characterizes an emotion episode as follows: An eliciting event triggers a thought (say, Aaron tells me that my real father is not the man I have taken him all my life to be, but the Fuller brush man who used to visit the house; which triggers a characteristic reaction in my gut; which triggers my perception of the reaction in my gut; which I read as indicating a core relational theme, namely, a demeaning offense against me and mine; which triggers my socking Aaron in the jaw. But why would the identification of my father with the Fuller brush man trigger that reaction in my gut (which is characteristic of anger), unless I already heard it as a demeaning offense against me and mine? Prinz’s construction seems to misplace the gut reaction in the emotional process. The gut reaction seems, rather, to presuppose some emotional awareness of the core relational theme, which gives rise to the gut reaction (for discussion, see Roberts 2013, 73–75).