Creative persons are freer than noncreative persons. Psychologists who study rats in mazes know little about human creativity. Just because rats can be predicted statistically to behave in one way, such a prediction says nothing about the individual rat. It does say something about the conditions of the experiment. There is no freedom in a closed system.
Neurotic people know little subjective freedom.
They live their lives limited by their past. As children, they made certain assumptions about life before they were able to make rational choices. These hidden assumptions lead to a closed system without freedom. To be creative we must go beyond those limitations to live in an open system. Paradoxically psychic freedom increases with awareness of the psychic determinants on individual behavior.