Comparing Fe And Fi And The Jungian Theory Of Introverted Emotions

Feelings and emotions play a major role in assessing and evaluating whatever happens in our lives. The very ability to feel normally arises as a response to the environment and our own actions. It helps us to judge whether something is safe, pleasant, fair, or desirable.

Some people might view feelings as unnecessary – they keep changing, often very quickly. You will only feel happy until something saddening arises. And you will stay angry until something comforting and soothing comes to your life.

However, feelings shouldn't be dismissed – they exist for a very important reason. Although completely relying on them might be a rather irresponsible idea because doing so could make us impulsive and blind to the consequences of our actions,
Both functions refer precisely to this ability to evaluate that I've just described. The main difference between Fe and Fi lies in how we construct and use our value system (the baseline of our evaluation).

Extraverted feeling is based on the value system primarily oriented outwards, towards the world and other people. We might place value on experiences, actions, and events which we perceive as being fair, just, or right not just to ourselves but most importantly - to other people. For example, we might be very conscious about hurting other people, what would be the right thing to do in order to make a group of people comfortable, or we might have an unusual insight into other people's motivations and effects such people have on other people.

In contrast, introverted feeling relies on the value system that is oriented inwards, towards ourselves. A common misunderstanding here would be that using such a function could make us selfish or self-centred, which I suppose would be true in very negative cases. However, in a general sense, Fi helps us to define ourselves accordingly to how we feel, what we believe in, and how the environment influences us – in contrast to Fe which focuses on how one influences the
Because they play a very important part in how we function and make decisions, they shouldn't be entirely dismissed or ignored as it usually only creates more problems – such as inability to know what one wants, struggling to relate and empathise with others, feeling stuck or blocked, and lacking genuine and authentic self-expression. Rather, they should be questioned and evaluated in order to find out which one of our values has been ignored, offended, or totally forgotten. When we can't live up to our values, perhaps it's time to either change them or change our actions in order to achieve that congruence that Carl Rogers has been talking