Feeling refers to something objective while emotion and affect are strictly subjective

Evidence

Yet feeling and emotion are not identical. We speak, for instance, of a feeling for language, athletics or other people – Sprachgefühl, Ballgefühl, Mitgefühl (respectively: linguistic aptitude, a knack for sports and compassion). One may ‘have a feel for language’ or ‘feel for others’, but no one has an ‘emotion for language’ or experiences ‘com-emotion’. There is no such thing as ‘language-affect’ or ‘com-affect’ either. Mourning is a feeling too. But it sounds strange to speak of an ‘affect of mourning’ or an ‘emotion of mourning’. Affect and emotion refer to strictly subjective matters, whereas feeling refers to something objective. — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 95

Yet feeling and emotion are not identical. We speak, for instance, of a feeling for language, athletics or other people – Sprachgefühl, Ballgefühl, Mitgefühl (respectively: linguistic aptitude, a knack for sports and compassion). One may ‘have a feel for language’ or ‘feel for others’, but no one has an ‘emotion for language’ or experiences ‘com-emotion’. There is no such thing as ‘language-affect’ or ‘com-affect’ either. Mourning is a feeling too. But it sounds strange to speak of an ‘affect of mourning’ or an ‘emotion of mourning’. Affect and emotion refer to strictly subjective matters, whereas feeling refers to something objective. — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 95

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clear tripartite distinction between feeling, emotion and affect — feeling is objective and relates to an object or competency.
• STORYSTEM: A character who ‘has a feel for’ something the culture treats as only subjective could dramatize this distinction — e.g. mourning as a feeling that cannot be reduced to affect.
• SEED: Possible essay: the collapse of the feeling/emotion/affect distinction in self-help and business culture — why tech and therapy flatten ‘feeling for X’ into subjective ‘emotion’.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 95
• XREF: connects to: Emotions are performative and goal-oriented while feelings need no intentional object — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 97; Mood is objective and expresses how things are, unlike emotion which deviates — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 99; Emotion is a bodily sensory response, not an abstract label. — Janet Burroway; Elizabeth Stuckey-French; Ned Stuckey-French, Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition: A Guide…, 121 (+6 more)

Related

• Emotions are performative and goal-oriented while feelings need no intentional object (similarity 0.82)
• Feelings are constative while emotions are performative and intentional (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Feelings accumulate from experience while emotions are immediate survival reactions #qualifies (0.80) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 244
• Self-feeling arises from the subject’s self-differentiating judgment on its own feelings #expands (0.78) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 372
• Affect perception is measured on arousal and valence dimensions rather than emotion labels #complicates (0.75)
• Emotion is a bodily sensory response, not an abstract label. #expands (0.72) — Janet Burroway; Elizabeth Stuckey-French; Ned Stuckey-French, Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition, 121
• Subjective and objective culture necessarily oppose each other #complicates (0.72) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 84
• Arousal and valence are separable emotion dimensions rated independently. #complicates (0.70)