  We study dualities between Lie algebras and Lie coalgebras, and their
respective (co)representations. To allow a study of dualities in an
infinite-dimensional setting, we introduce the notions of Lie monads and Lie
comonads, as special cases of YB-Lie algebras and YB-Lie coalgebras in additive
monoidal categories. We show that (strong) dualities between Lie algebras and
Lie coalgebras are closely related to (iso)morphisms between associated Lie
monads and Lie comonads. In the case of a duality between two Hopf algebras -in
the sense of Takeuchi- we recover a duality between a Lie algebra and a Lie
coalgebra -in the sense defined in this note- by computing the primitive and
the indecomposables elements, respectively.
