Curiosity Begins As An Act Of Tearing

Such Being The Nature Of Mental Life, The Business Of Psychology Is Primarily To Describe In Detail The Various Forms Which Attention Or Conation Assumes Upon The Different Levels Of That Life.

Desire 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.

Curiosity Begins As An Act Of Tearing To Pieces Or Analysis.

An Expectation Is A Future Object, Recognised As Belonging To Me.

We Cannot Therefore Say That Mental Acts Contain A Cognitive As Well As A Conative Element.