Discuss Holden's view of the relationship between knowing and feeling in The Catcher in the Rye.

C. J. Jung in his marvelous book  Psychological
Types  identifies four conscious functions. They are thinking, intuition,
sensation, and feeling. Almost everyone will favor one of these conscious functions and
use another of the functions to complement the principal one. Holden Caulfield seems to
rely heavily on intuition and feeliing. This is probably the most striking aspect of
"The Catcher in the Rye." Holden makes snap thumbnail assessments of people based on how
he feels about them--and his judgments are often right. If it were not for this feature
of the novel, it would not be nearly as interesting as it is or as popular as it has
been for over sixty years. His feeling tells him whether he likes or dislikes, trusts or
distrusts a person, and then his intuition gives him more details about that person's
character and even about people in the entire category to which the person belongs. A
good example is in his run-in with Maurice the bellhop, who is a total stranger. After
Maurice robs him of five dollars, Holden actually prophesies the petty thug's future
life:

"You're
a stupid chiseling moron, and in about two years you'll be one of those scraggy guys
that come up to you on the street and ask for a dime for coffee. You'll have snot all
over your dirty filthy overcoat, and you'll
be--"

Holden's primary
conscious function cannot be called "thinking" because he is too immature. But he may
develop into a person who relies more on thinking and intuition than on feeling and
intuition.

Your question about "knowing and feeling" is
perceptive. "Knowing" is the same as intuition (or intuiting), and it is a wonderful
ability to have. It comes, as Jung tells us, from the unconscious, which contains the
wisdom and condensed experience accumulated by the human race during the past two
million years.