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This paper is an engagement with the problems of kinship within psychoanalysis. Responding to the climate crisis and the violence on the marginalized that has come to define our times, we are concerned by how limited psychoanalysis feels as a response to coping and/or understanding relationships with those we consider other. We explore what it would mean to accept that the human is not radically special in kinship with the rest of the natural world, and that there is a disavowal of our animality in civilization and psychoanalysis. Using Guattari’s idea of “Three Ecologies,” we hope to widen our understandings of the unconscious as not only beset by the problems of Oedipality but of the ways in which it is a mutation of ecologies under capitalism. We attempt to explore a psychoanalysis that can engage with these ecologies where varied kinship entanglements – between different humans, between the human and other animals, and the natural world – can be communicated.