In spite of upholding it as an aspiration, a commitment to non-violence in motivation, thought and action is rare. Its realization is contingent on a confluence of complex politico-historical contingencies and psychic possibilities. The actualization of such a historical moment is also contingent on a collective awakening in the consciousness and conscience of a group to reclaim its losses through non-retributive measures. In this article, we will explore a few processes involved in the sustenance of non-violence. By exemplifying from literary excerpts, and also by dwelling on the ongoing Tibetan movement and that of the Zapatista in Mexico, our attempt is to finally reach a preliminary statement on the psychodynamics of non-violent action. In the last section of the article, we offer reflections on the inner world of the practitioner. This writing is at best to be viewed as a collage which brings together diverse impressions from short stories, analytical accounts and illustrative political movements. The reader is invited to journey through various ideas and images without trying to bring them together into a grand synthesis. The different sections of the writing retain a deliberate disjunctive quality as do the pages of a scrap book in which what precedes and what follows is associatively linked but not necessarily in the form of a flowing continuity.

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（Im）可能的拥抱：在暴力连根拔起后寻找非暴力可能性

尽管坚持将其作为一种愿望，但对动机，思想和行动中的非暴力行为的承诺却很少。它的实现取决于复杂的政治历史偶然事件和心理可能性的融合。这样一个历史时刻的实现还取决于集体觉醒，即一个集体的意识和良知通过非分配性手段收回其损失。在本文中，我们将探讨维持非暴力的一些过程。通过从文学摘录中举例说明，并继续关注正在进行的藏族运动和墨西哥Zapatista的运动，我们试图最终就非暴力行为的心理动力学达成初步声明。在文章的最后部分，我们对从业者的内心世界进行了反思。最好将这本书视为拼贴画，它将短篇小说，分析性叙述和说明性的政治运动等各种印象融合在一起。邀请读者浏览各种想法和图像，而不必试图将它们融合在一起。写作的不同部分保留了故意的分离性，就像剪贴簿的书页一样，其中前后相联，但不一定以连续的形式存在。