The term 'Identity' cannot be defined precisely. Every one of us lives a biography reflexively organized in terms of flows of social and psychological information about possible ways of life. How to behave, what to wear (expressions as well as clothes) and who to be are the decisions one makes every day. A person understands the self reflecting upon his/her biography. Personhood is a concept, and what a person is understood to be in one culture may not be the same in the other cultures – culture is simply the ways we live. The traits from which biographies are constructed may be understood and interpreted variously in different societies and cultures. However there are elements that are common to all cultures. With this basic understanding I attempt to study Milan Kundera's novel, Identity. The novel deals with identity which is ever shifting, fleeting and complex like self. The novel explores the question of human identity and whether it is possible for the two people in love (Chantal and Jean Marc) to understand each other in a world eternally trapped on the level of the physical, and the psychological. The female protagonist, Chantal is quite unsure about her comfortable present that her past seems to threaten her from all the sides. She exhibits a paranoid personality. She fears her past, fears her passing youth, and fears that soon no one would like her. She is all body, a physical being, a material. To her, very existence means sexual attention. She has lost control over her life, her thoughts, her wants and desires. It is this loss of control that has weakened her self-image. Her obsession with sexual attention is so overpowering that it seeps deep into her consciousness and smears her dreams with obscenities and erotic suggestions. “She recalled her metaphor and saw a rose withering, rapidly as in a time-lapse film until all that was left of it was a skinny blackish twig, and disappearing forever in the white universe of their evening: the rose diluted in the whiteness.” (Identity, 39)