The feeling of insecurity and precariousness which runs through the postmodern age - and which makes it so difficult to schematize - has deep repercussions on the most important social processes, and first of all, on the construction of identities. In fact, the apparently irreversible crisis of the traditional systems of meaning allows individuals to develop new experiences and gives them a lot of freedom in the design of their own life-path; at the same time, though, it deprives subjects of any solid social anchorage and exposes them to instability and uncertainty.