Stories do not constitute an original category, as fundamental as they are to forming the psychological self they require a transcendental condition, something that gathers the elements together in the right way. The earliest stories you can think of are driven by desire, not your desire, but the desire of an other for whom you are an object and which in this way becomes your desire. All the most intense emotions that accompany stories are built in this way, which seems to be emphatically psychoanalytic. This may not be a final account, but any deeper account must be able to explain at least as much of the phenomena, and do so with elegance.