Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
Samuel AlexanderDesire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
Samuel AlexanderIt is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.
Samuel AlexanderWe cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
Samuel Alexander