Binge rituals occupy a liminal and theoretically rich position within the depth-psychology corpus, examined at the intersection of compulsion, symbolic hunger, and unconscious enactment. Marion Woodman, whose body of work constitutes the most sustained engagement with this phenomenon, reads binge rituals not as mere behavioral dysregulation but as unconscious ceremonies through which the psyche both flees and approaches the devouring maternal complex. For Woodman, the binge sequence — isolation, consumption, darkness, and aftermath — replays a childhood wound rooted in failed nourishment and the terror of Medusa-like destruction. Marc Lewis, approaching from neuroscience, traces the ritual scaffolding of binge behavior through the lens of accelerated synaptic learning, noting how preparatory sequences (throwing away food, retrieving it from the trash, the slow descent from innocuous yogurt to uncontrolled consumption) acquire dopamine-mediated automaticity. Richard Schwartz’s Internal Family Systems framing reveals the binge as an inter-part rescue operation: a protector part intervening when a critic triggers the wounded exile, only to invite the critic’s renewed assault. Koob and Volkow locate binge behavior within the neurobiological three-stage addiction cycle, where the binge/intoxication stage involves dopamine and opioid circuits of the basal ganglia. The convergence of these frameworks — archetypal, neurobiological, systemic — makes binge rituals an especially productive site for dialogue between depth-psychological and empirical traditions.