What about the identity? We talk about it so much and

so badly that we do not even bother to know 'what it is'!

The term works as a suitcase, it crams everything that it

is unable to explain or that, for reasons of convenience

or more often of dishonesty, we do not wish to know or

maybe only indirectly. This term is ideologically charged

and politically connotated to such an extent that many

scientists have striped it of their vocabulary.

This essay presents itself as an overview of the question

in a critical and innovative perspective. It does not simply

revisit knowledge on 'what is identity', but is also

proposing to rethink this phenomenon in the light of our

historical conditions. Through this questioning, it is about

reconnecting or reconciling with this term that carries so

many sneaky dangers, legitimate concerns and negative

illusions. Indeed, identity is deadly as we would say. It

can lead to the worst of crimes or, more simply, to ordinary

mediocrities of racism and alterophobia.

This book assumes optimistically

a series of theoretical

propositions could not only

break with all essentialist

reading of identity, but also

to help better understand

the reality that it covers.