This work aims to put forward some ideas on how current the concept of identity is and its potential clinical value in psychoanalysis. The reflections revolve around some clinical material. It continues with the research that the author has been carrying out in some other works about the relations between the feeling of identity and the unconscious body schema. These notions will be related to the concept of trauma, outlining some hypothesis about the effects that early traumas -even the ones previous to birth- can have in the construction of the unconscious body schema, and therefore in the constitution of the feeling of identity. The extra-psychoanalytical epistemological basis for these approximations were obtained from the discipline called microhistory, used as a means for the renewal of the history, which takes the subjectivity of the silent, inapparent individual as data for the observation. Some of the questions posed are the following: Could the concept of identity, its development, revision and transformation be of interest for psychoanalysis and become a term with theoretical and clinical value? Can we retrieve the vestiges of the pre-representational in the clinic?