Atalanta enters the depth-psychology corpus through several distinct channels, each illuminating a different facet of the archetype she embodies. In the alchemical tradition, she is most prominently appropriated by Michael Maier, whose emblematic treatise Atalanta Fugiens (1618) recruits her as the central symbol for Mercurius — volatile, fleet, and resistant to capture — making the myth a sustained metaphor for the elusive agent of transformation in the opus alchymicum. Edinger, Abraham, and the Jungian alchemical tradition inherit this reading, deploying Maier’s imagery to anchor discussions of solutio, separatio, and coagulatio. A second current, represented by Anne Carson’s Eros the Bittersweet, treats Atalanta as a figure of erotic distance: the fleet virgin who maintains spatial and existential separation from the suitor, enacting with her body the logic of desire as absence and deferral. Campbell, drawing on Ovid and the Calydonian boar cycle, situates her within a mythological constellation linking fate, the hunt, and the sealing of destiny. The Hesiodic fragments preserve the most archaic stratum, rendering her beauty, her race with Hippomenes, and the golden apples of Aphrodite. Across these registers, Atalanta concentrates tensions between virginal autonomy and erotic capture, between volatility and fixation, between the mortal and the transformative.