This is a review of Susan Kassouf’s densely argued paper: Human among the more-than-human. Retrofitting Kohut for the Anthropocene, wherein Kassouf applies self psychology to an understanding of climate crisis and proposes an additional selfobject tie, the tie to the more-than-human, which is the world entire. Her claim is that the precarious self’s need for safety, if untransformed, results in impermeability to the more-than-human world, which in turn accounts for our disregard of the health of the planet. Kassouf’s goal is to promote permeability of the self with the more-than-human. This reviewer commends Kassouf on her original and thoughtful extension of Kohut’s theory. He raises the question whether the primary self state is not one of profound vulnerability, where precarity already constitutes a derailment in the tie to the more-than-human.