We can begin to explore this switch of use-value to exchange value in our dreams that have similar predicaments and then use the unobtainable object as an index of our intersubjective relations. The point in reference to dream work being the shift from finding ways to get the hidden object to ways of helping it display and play itself out. In the Paradox of Increasing Diminishment we can never get where we want to go because of an infinite amount of half distances we would have to cross to get there. Here the drive is revelling in its circulation again, in the path itself, in play. The real purpose of a drive is simply to reproduce itself.
Half is double.
And thus our horror when we diet and try to diminish our desire simply to find it has increased. Note the common dream theme of the desire to get somewhere and always having a million diversions, sub-plots, mazes and distractions along the way. In dreams, we often take the long road home. These literary paradoxes give us a way to approach the dream imagery which allows for a new relationship with and to desire. Regardless of the technique or style we use to approach dream imagery, there emerges now an option to note the element which, from the viewpoint of desire, is producing the image.