If you can classify the psychological identity of monster until abstraction I am sure you will find that it is so vastly different from your ordinary self. So you can understand what divides you from them. In doing so you can enforce the differences and take pride in your own identity. So I think that a good understanding of a monster will reinforce your own identity.
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So—if I understood correctly, you're saying that a monster is the representation of that which is completely different from our core identity? If that is so, I think you're right with your last statement, by understanding the monster we understand ourselves better. Does that mean our monsters are part of us?
Thanks for sharing @mathowl!
I mean like this ->
Hmmmm a very interesting representation! Not what I had in mind, but intellectually pleasant nonetheless. And of course leave it to @mathowl to find a math-way to explain monsters...