We know that this culture, from the readings at least, is obsessed with self image and honor. Both their families and their own. For Yvain's wife's servant to come and tell him that she no longer loves him and call him evil and despicable is a great blow to his pride and Honor. This is why he goes Crazy.
He can not live properly without that perfect portrait of himself, nor can he live without his wife thinking highly of him.
When Lunette is captured, Yvain dose a very redeamable thing. Not only dose he in some ways multitask but he is able to stand up for something right and just.
He slays a giant and saves a noble family and the imediatly there after without thought for his own life he goes and slays the three knights who accuse Lunete of her treason.
His wife is there and cannot recognize him, even though he is the same person physicaly, he has changed. He wishes for them not to see him as Yvain but as The Knight with the Lion. This supports the fact that this word depends on names and reputations, not faces, so greatly that Yvain's own wife dose not recognize me.
Maybe by taking on another name, Yvain is trying to shatter this type of thinking, and even perhaps pass it on to people like Gaiwan because he tells him he dose not know him by his name but that they have met before and know each other well.
It's safe to say, only Lunette knows who he really is.
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