Because you create the image, it only contains what you put into it. You can't count the whiskers on an imaginary cat if you didn't specifically imagine a certain number of whiskers.
Before Sartre, many psychologists treated "images" like miniature photos stored in a mental filing cabinet. Sartre argued this was a "fallacy of the world." To him, an image isn't a thing in the mind; it is a . The Imaginary: A Phenomenological Psychology of...
Unlike a real object you have to study to understand, an image is given to you all at once. You can’t "learn" anything new from your own mental image. Because you create the image, it only contains