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The Camera My Mother Gave Me takes us through Susanna Kaysen’s often comic, sometimes surreal encounters with a myriad of doctors—internists, gynecologists, “alternative health” experts—as well as with her boyfriend and her friends, when suddenly, inexplicably, “something went wrong” with her vagina.
The title originates from Luis Buñuel’s film Viridiana. Some peasants are in a banquet in a country mansion. They ask a maid to take a group snapshot, and she obliges, lifting up her skirt and using the “camera” that’s underneath.
Kaysen’s The Camera My Mother Gave Me observes what goes on when sexual pleasure is replaced by pain. “When eros goes away,” she writes, “it’s as though I’m colorblind. The globe is gray.” But is this a problem of body, or mind? And will clinicians tease out the difference between the two?
Spare, frank, and altogether original, The Camera My Mother Gave Me challenges us to believe in new ways about the centrality and power of sexuality. It really is a fantastic investigation into the role sex plays in perception and our notions of ourselves—and into what goes on when the erotic impulse meets the world of medicine
