Feelings

Type: Concept

As of November 2026, Feelings has been mentioned in one podcast episode on The Ezra Klein Show (Oct 2025). A central thread: feelings as primary human judgment/attunement and art as practice for noticing and refining them.

According to the APA Dictionary of Psychology, a feeling is "a self-contained phenomenal experience"; feelings are "subjective, evaluative, and independent of the sensations, thoughts, or images evoking them". The term feeling is closely related to, but not the same as, emotion. Feeling may, for instance, refer to the conscious subjective experience of emotions. The study of subjective experiences is called phenomenology. Psychotherapy generally involves a therapist helping a client understand,