The beetle occupies a concentrated but resonant position within the depth-psychology corpus, appearing most consequentially at the intersection of synchronicity, Egyptian solar symbolism, and the phenomenology of the insect as dream-figure. Jung’s celebrated clinical anecdote — in which a patient’s dream of a golden scarab coincides precisely with a rose-chafer (Cetonia aurata) tapping at the consulting-room window — functions as the paradigm case for synchronicity across Jungian literature, cited by Jung himself in the Collected Works, by Murray Stein in his exposition of synchronistic order, and by Clarke in the context of the I Ching. The scarab beetle carries additional symbolic weight through its Egyptian provenance: Neumann locates the beetle within the solar mythology of Ra and Osiris, where it figures the self-renewing, self-generating sun-god Khepri. Freud, by contrast, encounters the beetle through the clinical ‘May-Beetle Dream,’ deploying it as material for wish-fulfillment analysis with an emphasis on cruelty, disgust, and erotic undercurrents. Hillman’s contribution is the most ecologically imaginal: he reads the beetle, alongside insects generally, as an emissary of the chthonic underworld, a figure of multiplicity threatening individualized ego-consciousness and opening toward Hades. Hollis’s index reference to the ‘scarab beetle’ situates it within masculine psychology and the Self. Across these authors, the beetle mediates between solar transcendence and chthonic depth.