Inter-personal relationships are inherently of the social aspect, in which different rules apply. Social rules suggest the opposite, namely that the less demanding we are towards people, the more inclined they will be to do as we wish. They control their perception. This is formative functioning in regard to people's own perceptions. It seems rather odd to Western thinking.
Creativity seems somehow to be an opposite of control, art the opposite of technology.
A long-standing presupposition in Western thought is that there is a dualistic opposition and even antagonism between determinism and freedom. This works itself out in the way we think when we oppose rationality to intuition, in our view of knowledge when we oppose fact to value, and in the way we do things when we oppose control to creativity. To him there is an element of determinativity and normativity in most of the law-spheres in which we function, and if human logic cannot reconcile them, this just shows the limitations of reason . In the formative aspect we find this mix of detminative and normative ingredients of formative power. Control is more determinative while creativity is more normative.