ABSTRACT
It is extremely difficult to talk about the activity of linguistic (or any other) creation, which usually remains mysterious to the creator—indeed, some degree of inexplicability is often taken to be definitive of creation, in contrast to the simple act of production in accordance with existing models and rules. This chapter begins with an attempt at introspection, seeking an account of what exactly it is that is brought about by the psychological mechanisms employed—which may differ immensely from person to person and occasion to occasion. It focuses on a bottom matter of psychology, consciousness, or subjective experience, but of structural relations, or, better, shifts between different structural relations and the possibilities and constraints they bring into being—which might include a revaluation of such concepts as the "psyche", "consciousness", or "experience". Otherness is not something the would-be creator can simply take hold of, as an idea, a formal possibility, a mathematical equation, lying outside familiar frameworks.
