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Guided by the extension of linguistic usage and meanings of the signifier “ex”, the article seeks to correlate the barely conscious psychic phenomena drawn from the analysis of individuals (both children and parents) and the family groups they make up, with the social or societal transformations modifying the historic bases of feelings of identity. The whole argument stresses the frequency of Narcissistic disorders and especially the feeling of constancy and self-worth as being essential when going beyond desire to make up the “conjugal” dimension of the choice of lover and the choice of the type of sentimental bond. The perceptible evolution in temporality plays a major role here, shifting identifications towards a modelled form of adolescence. Is what we are seeing here a passing upheaval in people’s sense of identity, the renewal of a plurality of identity related processes or an anthropological evolution?