This experimental essay explores Freud’s concept of the uncanny, its aspect where repressed animistic beliefs resurface against the rational, as a vital tool for confronting the climate crisis. Through the uncanny phrase “water is life” Lakota elders have pointed us to a potentially new but familiar relationship with an animistic view of nature, urging a shift from humanity’s exploitation of the earth toward a more kindred relation. Drawing on Kafka’s work, Indigenous perspectives, and personal/clinical vignettes, this essay reflects on the strange presence of animals in our human lives challenging the human-exceptionalist view that has led to environmental destruction. Ultimately, this essay suggests that through free association, psychoanalysis offers an attempt at uncanny speaking and listening that could make possible more elastic identifications and interdependencies between the earth and its Others.