Nos habíamos choleado tanto: Psicoanálisis y racismo (We Had Discriminated against Each other So Much: Psychoanalysis and Racism). By Jorge Bruce. Lima:  Fondo Editorial Universidad San Martín de Porres, 2007,  145 pp.

This remarkable book, published ten years ago, has gone through several editions, selling in the neighborhood of fifty thousand copies. This is an unusual phenomenon in the Peruvian book market.

This extraordinary achievement has been possible because Jorge Bruce is a sui generis psychoanalyst: besides working with patients on the couch, he writes a weekly column in one of the country's most prestigious newspapers about the political and social conflicts in Peruvian life. In that column he clearly evinces a psychoanalytic perspective.

Thus, this book combines the perspective of the columnist with that of the psychoanalyst, providing us an illustrated account of prejudice and racism, realities evident in all aspects of Peruvian life. This book has not been written exclusively for psychoanalysts; rather, it aims to engage as many people as possible who are interested in the subject of racism in Peruvian society.

Bruce covers in his book a variety of topics, from the public sphere to everyday life, from the public domain to the privacy of home or the couch, analyzing the perspective of the discriminated against, as well as the