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In this article I suggest that there is a confluence of perspectives between Gandhian nonviolence and the Kleinian depressive position. Whereas nonviolence refuses the kind of polarization between and among people that enables violence, the depressive position posits an underlying commonality between and among people that can be ruptured by defensive disavowal and dissociation. This confluence points to an underlying parallel between healing approaches, East and West.