A psychologist in the early part of this century did an index of words for feelings and he had 1,500 words for different feelings all within our ordinary English language. Somehow we have lost a lot of the richness of description. You can use the body for mimicry to get back some of that. How do you feel when your hand is there and you are standing like that? Do you feel independent? Do you feel aggressive? Do you feel tough? Do you feel safe?
There is an enormous range of feeling that we can get to through that body language. The best way to get to the archetypal is through feeling, not through definition. The mistake that most people make about the archetypal is to treat it as a noun and to try to define it. And I have said this again and again: it is an adjective—it qualifies events. As an adjective, it becomes something you feel.
— Three Seminars on Melancholy and Depression, On Melancholy & Depression, UE 11