ABSTRACT
Against the archetypal background of the Orpheus-Eurydice myth, psychological research shifts from being an empirical enterprise to being an imaginal one, and an imaginal approach to research as re-search is animated within this archetypal field. The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice lingers in the background of research as re-search, like the cosmic background radiation of the Big Bang that lingers in the story of the universe. A strange word, this word "virginity," to use to describe this sixth Orphic moment of re-search, but a fitting one because it is the word that belongs to Eurydice in that moment. Mourning is a creative process that frees the one who mourns as well as the one or thing that is mourned from their claims upon each other. Thus, mourning is an act of individuation in which the one who leaves and the one that is left behind both come into their new virginity.
