Within the depth-psychology corpus, ‘Bath’ operates simultaneously as a concrete ritual act, an alchemical operative symbol, and an archetypal image of psychic transformation. The alchemical literature, represented most fully by Abraham’s Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery, treats the bath (balneum, bain marie, sweat-bath) as a technical procedure of dissolution, purification, and rebirth: the king dissolves in the mercurial waters, is cleansed of his blackened impurities, and emerges renewed. Jung, in The Practice of Psychotherapy, maps this imagery directly onto the analytic encounter, reading the Rosarium’s immersion scene as the descent of conscious personality into the unconscious — the mercurial fountain become baptismal medium. Edinger, following Jung, links bath imagery to the solutio process, noting the erotic dimension in figures such as Bathsheba and Susanna, where the bath catalyzes the dissolution of masculine integrity. Hillman situates the bain marie as an alchemical technique of tempered indirection — fire and water cooperating without direct contact. Beyond alchemy, the bath appears in Greek religion as purificatory rite preceding initiation (Burkert), in Vedantic thought as a metaphor for immersion in universal Self (Singh), and in soul-psychology (Sardello, Moore) as an architectural site charged with imaginal and regenerative meaning. The tension across these positions concerns whether the bath primarily dissolves or reconstitutes — a question that proves inseparable from depth psychology’s broader debate about regression and renewal.