The Authoritarian Tradition: Violence and Democracy in Peru
This essay seeks to discuss the relations between State and society in Peru, looking for the connections that exist between politics and everyday life. The common tendency is to separate: to turn reality into a set of segments. It would seem that there is no relationship between family relations, the disappeared in Ayacucho, and prison practices. But one of the functions of any essay is to approach totality by finding what, using an expression from psychoanalytic practice, we might call "meaningful connections."