ABSTRACT
Science seems to re-enforce the mystery rather than resolve it. This mystery remains just as opaque for those who succeed in performing the technological feat of medically assisted reproduction as it does for those who give birth to a child by this method. The mystery of the emergence of life remains, even when we resort to technology in order to engender it. This mystery is replayed with the birth of every child. One cannot help feeling bewildered just thinking about it. To ask where children come from is the impossible question par excellence. Whatever the biological explanations, it comes up against the Real that resists, the Real of origin. The question of origin goes beyond all biological explanations. A giddiness overwhelms the person who reflects on the questions that surround origin: vertigo in the face of infinity. This can be experienced in a multitude of ways.
