ABSTRACT

This chapter considers that feminine orgasm is something subversive. It challenges the laws of biology by the diversity of manifestations it involves. The usual psychoanalytic definition of the feminine orgasm is paradoxical. On the one hand, it is seen as purely biological, while at the same time as something independent, something that can be easily defined at one moment but defies categorization at the next. Feminine orgasms are not exact or measurable. They are erratic, changing, elusive. In the primal orgasm during lactation, three components enter into play which affect the incipient erogenous links: the orificial or deep component, the epidermic or surface component, and the component in which the interior of the body is involved. Feminine sensuality, unfolding its erotic abundance, works in transgression, opening to the disturbed flesh in its excessive overflow, bringing the experience of ecstasy, which links the erotic with mysticism.