It is necessary to make a distinction between self-awareness
and self-feeling, for feeling may accompany consciousness with
varying degrees of strength (54). It is possible to have aware-
ness of the self without accompanying feelings. ¹ On the other
hand, it is not possible to have feeling about the self without
awareness. Normally the self is reacted to with a variety of
such feelings as elation, depression, contentment, irritation,
and the like. Just as one can be aware of the presence of other
people and yet have very little feeling for them, so it is possi-
ble to be aware of the self and yet react to the self with little
or no feeling. A young lady who was disappointed in love
remarked on looking at a photograph of herself and her beau
that she had no feeling about him or herself in the picture.
It was as though she was looking at a picture of two other
persons whom she did not know.

We are told that the nucleus of self-feeling comes from the
sensations of equilibrium and space, that is, those senses which
arise from the semicircular canals in the middle ear (54, 59).
Our feelings about ourselves come first of all from our orienta-
tion in space as we feel ourselves seated in a certain room,

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