Editing Jungian cognitive functions (section)

==== Introverted feeling ====
Introverted feeling is "very hard to elucidate since so little of it is openly displayed." Jung writes of feeling in introverted feelers: "[Introverted feeling] is continually seeking an image which has no existence in reality but which it has seen in a kind of vision. It glides over all objects that do not fit in with its aim. It strives for inner intensity, for which the objects serve at most as a stimulus. The depth of this feeling can only be guessed—it can never be clearly grasped. It makes people silent and difficult to access; it shrinks back like a violet from the brute nature of the object in order to fill the depths of the subject. It comes out with negative judgments or assumes an air of profound indifference as a means of defense."{{sfn|Jung|1971|p=541-542}} Introverted feelings can therefore be thought of as subjective, personal feeling-values and primordial images, that the person protects and defends against the thoughts and judgements of others.