Thus The Same Object May Supply A

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

Psychology Is The Science Of The Act Of Experiencing, And Deals With The Whole System Of Such Acts As They Make Up Mental Life.

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.

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