As far as motives are concerned, if we speak of them in the register of values, is there anything like 'use value' in play or is it almost entirely 'exchange value', that is, socially determined value, or value mediated by social instincts? Even the most practical wants, such as for food and shelter, retain a largely social significance whenever they are expressed in a social setting, as for example with the beggars who have become so prominent in our city streets, whose entire presentation is so heavily coded. The idea of use value, which is that of the quantum of pure enjoyment in the gratification of a desire, seems to be a notion which functions as an essential component of the complex exchange, or symbolising, social value. As if the latter veils itself in the former. You need or choose to think that you are doing something because it pleases you, that you do it on your own account, so that you may better serve the ends of whatever social signification you are driven to enact, the latter being something that you cannot make sense of within the theory of the self that you retain. So it is with the powerful so-called 'ego drives'. Since there is no ego there cannot be any ego drives, but the incoherences in desire can appear to be resolved by returning on themselves so as to appear to be sui generis. It is all generis alterius, which is perhaps the same as to state the paradox that once you follow the clue found in mimetic desire you end up finding that the 'original' is only a certain moment of the mimetic.