The imagined gratification of a desire is usually in the form of a picture story with a protagonist with whom the ego can identify, whether in a nursery story or an advertisement, whether the other is itself pictured or merely a point of view, all of which assumes a fairly sophisticated ego structure in time as well as in alternative worlds. Is there a more primal imagination that precedes such an ego? How and when does that imagination arise? Is it the first fruit of the cycle of need, frustration and gratification? If it is the conditioning of the repetition of situations how are the situations themselves recognised? Is it the drive of the mind to meet, to be adequate to, being-in-the-world?