This mechanism of “disidentification“ has been used as the vicissitude or the unchaining of the action in several novels by the Costa Rican writer Fernando Contreras: in the novel Los Peor, Jerónimo loses his ID card; in Única mirando al mar, the main character commits “identicide” by throwing himself into the garbage; in Cierto azul, Arturo, the young protagonist, runs away from his paternal house (a house that appears, in nationalist literature, as Arturo, the young protagonist, runs away from his paternal house (a house that appears, in nationalist literature, as the symbol of harmony that nests under the protecting mantle of the patriarch)