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...
Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.