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For Psychological Purposes The Most Important Differences In Conation Are Those In Virtue Of Which The Object Is Revealed As Sensed Or Perceived Or Imaged Or Remembered Or Thought.

The Perceptive Act Is A Reaction Of The Mind Upon The Object Of Which It Is The Perception.

An Object Is Not First Imagined Or Thought About And Then Expected Or Willed, But In Being Actively Expected It Is Imagined As Future And In Being Willed It Is Thought.

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

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.