The Artistic Identity: Art as a Catalyst for "Self Actualization" in Lois Lowry's Gathering Blue and Linda Sue Park's A Single Shard

According to Rosenberg, one change is in the content of the adolescent's self-conceptions over time. According to Jung, the self is the whole of consciousness, of psyche, of an individual . . . the goal of the individual is to reach a balance or recognition of the different aspects of the self; he called the process of understanding the self-individuation or self-actualization. Makers of song, of wood, of threaded patterns. Because they were artists, they had some value that she could not comprehend. [...]value, the three of them were here.