HUMAN BEINGS IN MASQUERADE, ADOPTING A DIFFERENT IDENTITY BY MEANS OF DISGUISE; DOPPELGANGERS, A PERSONS ALTER EGO OR HIGHER SELF.

 

 

 

Without the constraints, individuals are inevitably forced back to their own resources. They look for aesthetic, formal, and social anchors for a substitute identity, then find an idealized version of themselves in a self created, artificial double. 

 

(Klanten, Ehmann and Schulze, 2011. p. 6)