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The author explores the urge or motivation to create something original, here viewed as separate from the talent to do it. This urge in creative people is seen as coming from a cognitive style that readily organizes data in new and creative ways. These people are seen as having greater numbers of organizing repertoires in the data-processing parts of their egos. People with reduced organizing repertoires are often inflexible and unanalyzable, allegedly because they cannot process the novel aspects of an interpretation. The creative genius is one who has an intense and problem-solving (aesthetic, scientific, etc.) sense of the "needs of society." The inner compulsion to create is an outcome of the child's early need to clarify the self as different, unique, and separate from that of the mother. By her enveloping over-involvement with the creative child, she can produce an environment in which the talent can be lost through the child's desire to please her, and all originality perishes. The creative person uses his or her talent to create novel works that help define the self as unique and different from the encouraging but controlling mother.