It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.

Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.

It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.

The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.