 Feeling is “immediate” self-consciousness as contrasted with “that consciousness of self which is more like an objective consciousness, being a representation of oneself, and thus mediated by self-contemplation” (The Christian Faith, §3.2). For Schleiermacher ‘immediate’ contrasts with ‘analytic’; he seems to have in mind something like what people mean when they say that feelings are ‘non-cognitive’: that they precede and cannot be captured in articulate thought. Joy, he says, is a genuine state of feeling, but self-approval “belong[s] to the objective consciousness of self” (ibid.). One might feel joy without knowing why, but presumably self-approval requires that one have reasons; thus the former is immediate, the latter analytic.