enigmatize

To sum up, in the 1499 Italian edition, there seems to be a tendency to enigmatize through the blankness of the woodcuts and to provoke the reader to use his imaginative energy to complete the visual gaps and solve the "puzzles." On the contrary, in the Jean Martin 1546 edition, there is an attempt to fill in the visual gaps and elucidate the story rather than leaving it up to the reader's imagination.

Unfortunately, the plethora of research seems to further obscure and enigmatize the meaning and nature of identity, and worse, the aggressive advocate of the importance of establishing, authenticating, maintaining, or negotiating one's own or group identity seems to encourage people to tightly hold their own ego.