A Freudian reading of the category of identity in Anthony Giddens. This article intends to examine the formulations made by Anthony Giddens about the category of identity, specially in its articulations with the experience of modernity, and it tries to indicate in which ways such formulations imply a modality of apprehension of the subjective experience which may be questioned by the psychoanalytical theory, specially starting from a consideration of the category of subject, in its relations with reason and consciousness, and from some Freudian propositions about the idea of Ego and its place in the constitution of the psychic apparatus.
Identity; modernity; ego; subject