Doris Lessing fictionalizes self-awareness as an inevitable path to one's wholeness and his realness of the self and as psychological salvation from several psychotic shackles. The study traces Lessing's adolescents' journeys towards self-awareness in the light of analytical studies undertaken on awareness and its kinds. The research also applies Karnes Horney's concept of the self and her investigation of the neurotic trends that may hinder self-awareness actualization. Finally, the study focuses on how Doris Lessing's short fiction narratively structures the experience of self-awareness in the form of an experiential self-journey.