Weaving subjective musings with theoretical speculation and taking the consulting room as a point of departure, this paper explores various themes on the question of identity. Its aim is to open questions and lines of inquiry, rather than to articulate a comprehensive theory. I consider identity as identification with a social location, where that social location is a function of groups. As such, identity is inherently contingent, a relational affair, a soft assembly. Identity may not be a particularly psychoanalytic concept, but it is currently being tasked to do considerable work in psychoanalysis: specifically, as a hinge between the dual registers of the personal and social unconscious. Like any symptom, the term identity both obscures and indexes, signaling the urgent need for a radical revision of psychoanalytic theory. The more we can use the contingency of identity — the way we find ourselves identified (by others as much as by ourselves) in this place and time, whatever these might be — rather than as a fixed category thought to transcend place and time, the more that the concept of identity can be used in a specifically psychoanalytic way to help us explore the terrain of the political, which I distinguish from the terrain of politics proper. These ideas are employed to consider the current moment in psychoanalytic organizational life, which takes place under the sign of a fundamental paradigm shift (that is to say: catastrophic change).