The ideological stance that “every stranger is an enemy,” prevalent during Fascist era, continues with force in our migratory and politically volatile world. Primo Levi revealed that the Nazi camps bloomed into full form at the end of this faulty syllogism. His concern, still prescient, demands attention to contemporary situations of violence. It also directs readers to consider how to create ties of friendship with those we consider strangers. How do we respond critically to the attractive logic of distrust, exclusion, expulsion, and, even, annihilation; in other words, a logic of hatred? Literary critic Julia Kristeva argued with a psychoanalytic lens that when we befriend the inner stranger, represented in the human unconscious and its abject aspects, we find support to build relationships of trust with unfamiliar others. Their work helps us to consider further the legacy of the Lager as a space of reduction and nothingness and direct us toward the present and future work of creating societies with spaces for relating rather than obliterating.