“The conscious artificial or masked personality complex which is adopted by an individual in contrast to serve as a protection, a defense, a deception or an attemp to adapt to the world around him.”

I find it interesting to see the way people wear their clothes and the way they express their emotional state of mind by doing so. When I look around I see people acting the way they are expected to by other people. But that roleplay, your hiding place, isn't watertight. Life trickles in from the outside, and you're forced to react.You can shut yourself in. Then you needn't play any parts or make wrong gestures.