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This commentary engages with Lisa Koshkarian and Chris Larrald’s proposal for a “kinship object” to theorize the human- nonhuman connectedness in psychoanalysis. The authors suggest that early experiences with the maternal environment augments the need for companionship, reciprocity, and the capacity for concern paving way for an inclination toward responsibility, reparation, and recognition of the alterity of the other. It is suggested that tolerating subjective otherness not only connects us with members of one’s own species but a consolidating kinship with all others. It is argued that the authors ecological standpoint heralds an ecopoetics of extinction-survival toward possibilities of non-hierarchical entanglements of the human and the non-human elements in the natural world.