Freedom is demonstrated in creativity. In it you use freedom both negatively and positively, negatively to detach yourself from all that has gone before in order to gain access to the site from which you can exercise positive freedom in the choices that bring about a new synthesis. This site of freedom, which is also one of power, that is of pure act, is known in the experience as closer to reality than your usual reactive functioning - where here the term reality has a completely positive sense, being the condition of utmost value. Something of this freedom is conveyed in what is produced, so that the one who appreciates it gains a parallel adumbration of their identity with the shaping power, the active dimension of the pure 'I'. On a lower level the same logic is present in desire, which is also a function of freedom - indeed desire could not represent the mortal threat to freedom which it does if it were not intimately connected to it. Again, the negative and positive faces of freedom are in play. To authentically desire you need to be absolutely honest with yourself, or so we're told, to free yourself not only from expected choices but from every kind of mimetic contagion, in so far as you can become aware of them. (Other people's desires always appear grotesquely mimetic in contrast to your own.) Then with all the force of your regathered self you choose so that you cannot help but to follow through on that choice. All the knotty relations of love and desire are contained in this; to love = diligere = dis+lego = to hyper-choose. In a strange way, desire is a caricature of the power of creation, blighted by its deep complicity with entropy and hence with death.