I ascribed this to typology and later discovered, when they had enough of my repression, that of course I had feelings, rather too many of them. I had learned to use my typology to screen and defend against what was intuited as overwhelming feelings. They can go into the body as somatic disturbance, into acting out behaviors, into projections, or introject as anger or depression.
Emotion is the raw, neurological discharge of the organism in response to a stimulus.
Feeling is the autonomous, qualitative evaluation by the psyche of the experience. And mood is the pooling of accumulated, non-processed feeling. Therefore, I learned that, forgive the cliche, to be out of touch with my feelings was to be out of touch with some primal, evaluative process my own psyche was originating. When I came, reluctantly, to respect this process, I gained an important access to my own truth. Of course, most people already know this, but I was a slow learner.