ABSTRACT
The realm of the virgin is extensive; it includes the state of virginity, the realm of the closed and protected, the movements of deflowering, which in the form of disguises penetrate into the intimacy of the self, and the process of reflowering—amazing, complex, but no less certain. According to psychoanalysis, the body and the psyche "speak" one upon the other. The virginity of the mind is mated with that of the body. Virginity includes the concept of parthenogenesis. This chapter sketches a trophic concept of virginity which calls for a body-mind-soul that contains itself intact in its full potentiality. The state of virginity implies a self-covering that has resulted from an almost surgical psychic act of severance from the common skin of the mother. Virginity injects the sacred, the sublime, into eroticism. The virginity is self-integrity. It is the feminine figure that cannot be degraded.
