The pseudonym is a good way to transgress the social order by saving all parties. It allows to disobey without breaking, to hide without running away, to redouble without giving up. Because pseudonymy marks the limits of ultimate freedom. That of being another while remaining oneself. It corresponds to a change of person without depersonalization and in that sense it is the opposite of alienation. "
However, the use of a pseudonym is rarely innocuous. Often he reveals deep fractures in the filiation of the author.
Interesting reflection, @kouba01. I think there is a lot of concealment, of being able to unfold into another who is you, but who gives you the possibility of being different. There is, obviously, a transgression and the search for a freedom that gives you the mask. In fact, I myself can believe and create a difference between one and the other, between what I really am and what I have invented, but sometimes that line blurs. I value your comment! Greetings ;)