The advocates of 'no self' protest too much, whatever it is that they disprove is not the self, but only a self would wish to so disappear. Others might try to replace the self by one of its expressions, such as desire, as if desire could exist without a head. It would be truer to say that there are only selves which give rise to every kind of expression just because they cannot be expressed, which assume every sort of relation among themselves just because there are no such relations.