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# Feeling
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- Published: 2026-09-05T04:40:52.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-11T20:10:06.000Z
- Description: Feeling — Descent Press Index (entry forthcoming).
- Author: Jae Botávn
- Tags: #index, #Import 2026-09-04 23:45

\## 1\. Etymology

\*\*Feeling\*\* names the \*\*psychological function that evaluates or judges what something or someone is worth\*\*. Compare \[thinking\](/index/thinking/); related: rational function; value; distinct from \[affect\](/index/affect/).

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\## 2\. Plain summary

\*\*Feeling\*\* in Jung’s typology is a judging function—cold or warm, but about worth, not about “having feelings” in the everyday sense. It is rational like thinking because reflection decides, not bare perception. Fight-or-flight choices rest on it when value is at stake.

Do not confuse it with emotion/\[affect\](/index/affect/) (complex discharge with bodily innervation). Pure feeling need produce no more physical stir than ordinary thinking. A person oriented mainly by feeling is a feeling type; then thinking tends to be inferior. Related to \[introversion\](/index/introversion/)/\[extraversion\](/index/extraversion/) and to \[intuition\](/index/intuition/)/\[sensation\](/index/sensation/) as the other pair.

\*\*Examples (exhaustive house list for this Index lemma — common feeling-function motifs named across Jung’s essays and standard Jungian lexica; not a claim that Jung’s CW contains only these):\*\* 

evaluates worth/value; rational function (with thinking); independent of external stimuli as subjective process; fight-or-flight basis; feeling type; distinct from affect/emotion; no perceptible physical innervations when uncontaminated; cold feeling possible; complementary inferior when thinking superior; pairs with \[thinking\](/index/thinking/) as rational pair; \[opposites\](/index/opposites/) of value vs concept; \[persona\](/index/persona/) / relationship judgments; \[compensation\](/index/compensation/) when one-sided.

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\## 3\. Academic elucidation

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\## 4\. Lexicon

\*\*Sharp (1991)\*\*

\> Feeling. The psychological function that evaluates or judges what something or someone is worth. … A feeling is as indisputable a reality as the existence of an idea. … Feeling is distinguished from affect by the fact that it produces no perceptible physical innervations…

(Sharp, 1991, p. \[provisional — unverified\])

\> typology … Some individuals are more excited or energised by the internal world and others by the external world; these are introverts and extraverts respectively… in addition… thinking, feeling, sensation, intuition…

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\## 5\. CW concordance — sample, not exhaustive

\> I count feeling among the four basic psychological functions… I regard it as an independent function sui generis.

\> Feeling is primarily a process that takes place between the ego and a given content, a process, moreover, that imparts to the content a definite value in the sense of acceptance or rejection (“like” or “dislike”).

\> Feeling, therefore, is an entirely subjective process… Hence feeling is a kind of judgment, differing from intellectual judgment in that its aim is not to establish conceptual relations but to set up a subjective criterion of acceptance or rejection.

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\*\*See also:\*\* \[thinking\](/index/thinking/); \[intuition\](/index/intuition/); \[sensation\](/index/sensation/); \[affect\](/index/affect/); \[introversion\](/index/introversion/); \[extraversion\](/index/extraversion/); \[consciousness\](/index/consciousness/); \[opposites\](/index/opposites/). \*(Queued — sensation next; typology.)\*

\## References

Jung, C. G. (1971). Psychological types \[Definitions\]. In H. Read, M. Fordham, G. Adler, & W. McGuire (Eds.), \*The collected works of C. G. Jung\* (R. F. C. Hull, Trans.) (Vol. 6, pp. 602–603, ¶¶723–725). Princeton University Press. (Original work published 1921)

Samuels, A., Shorter, B., & Plaut, F. (1986). \*A critical dictionary of Jungian analysis\*. Routledge.

Sharp, D. (1991). \*Jung lexicon: A primer of terms & concepts\*. Inner City Books.

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