ABSTRACT
The core of the personality is a creator. This is a simple statement but it goes counter to the way this core is presented both in psycho-analytic discourse and within the social sciences more generally. This core of the personality is frequently referred to as a bunch of instinctual drives with the ego or self 'managing' them. Drives, according to Freud's metapsychology and nearly all thinkers within the Social Sciences, are the foundation of the personality but this is because there is a failure to conceptualize what life is; what defines life. The chapter shows that actions that flow from the core of the mind, the creative centre, expand and deepen the mind but there is an implication here that there are actions which do not originate in this creative centre. The functioning of the creative core depends to a large extent upon the respectful freedom given to the individual. Desire is a component part of the creative core.
