The discerned absence of wholeness constitutes the felt deficiency. It is ambiguous. From the omniscient point of view of an observer of the whole system of mind , there is a third option. Ordinary Social Self motivation is actually driven by the Transcendental Self. The Transcendental Self is not conceptual and has no thoughts about the past or the future, or about anything else.
Transcendental subjectivity acts to consume transcendental objectivity.
That is its nature, what it does for a living. But it doesn't know that. It doesn't know anything. So it is not fair to say that transcendental subjectivity anticipates its future satisfaction, or is driven by deficiency. The felt sense of motivational striving is a Social Self conceptualization of an intuition about the Transcendental Self.