I have found, recently, in my work I am beginning to deal a lot with identity. Most importantly I am dealing with self identity. I am seeing this work as a reflection of myself and how I have developed as a person over the last 21 years. I am interested to learn how trauma, joy, and the other range of emotional experiences affect human development. I find it important that I acknowledge that I am doing work about my own personal identity. In bringing that theme to the forefront I feel I may be able to push it further in the long run. On my last critique blog it was mentioned to maybe find models to convey emotions that I have felt if I am having trouble conveying them myself, but I feel it is important to the theme of self and identity that I remain in the images.
Guardo, Carol J. Bohan, Janis Beebe. "Development of a Sense of Self-identity in Children". Child
Development. 1971. Print.
Summary
This article "Development of a Sense of Self-identity in Children" approaches how children learn and develop. Guardo and Bohan discuss what "self-identity" means and why it is important."It refers to an immediate, intraorganismic experience whereby the individual is aware of his own being and functioning"(1910). Why is self-identity important in human experience? Why do people work so hard to discover "who they really are"? Guardo and Bohan state that the four dimensions of self identity stem from "humanity, sexuality, individuality, and continuity" (1910)
key quotations
"A sense of self identity involves the experience of having or being certain characteristics which are essential to the human individual in that they contribute to "personeity," that is, to this experience of himself as a person with a unique identity" (1910).
"In summary, a sense of self-identity or "personeity" encompasses that experience whereby the individual is aware that he is one being with a unique identity who has been, is, and will be a male (or female) human person seperate from and entirely like no other" (1911).
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