Emotion

Feelings begin at a somatic level as affect, which is largely unconscious. They become emotion when we become aware of the sensation of feeling something. To become a “feeling” we bring our mind to the experience of emotion and move it into the symbolic realm by naming what it is that we are feeling.

There is no such thing as “a feeling”, I can’t show you anger or sadness for example, but I know what it is to feel angry or feel sad. So I resist speaking about feelings as if they were a “thing”.