Within the depth-psychology corpus, Cronos (Kronos) occupies a peculiarly layered position: he is simultaneously a cosmogonic Titan, a figure of temporal cyclicity, a devouring patriarch, and an ambivalent archetype whose polarity resists reduction. Harrison reads him as the Year-God, the Accomplisher of the full celestial circle, whose name invites but finally resists equation with Chronos, the abstract personification of time. Jung’s seminar notes confront the confusion directly, insisting that Kronos the Titan and Chronos the Orphic cosmogonic deity are etymologically and mythologically distinct, though their conflation in Neoplatonic and popular psychological usage is nearly irresistible. Hillman, working through the Italian Hermetic tradition, foregrounds Crono-Saturno’s constitutive duplicity: the benign lord of the Golden Age and the dark devourer of his own children simultaneously. Kerényi situates Kronos structurally within the Titan genealogy, as youngest son of Ouranos who consummates the pattern only Zeus can break. Greene brings him into the astrological-psychological sphere as Capricornian Saturn, the archetype of voluntary bondage and the father-principle. Across these positions, the central tension is between Cronos as a figure of fertile cyclical time and Cronos as the castrating, swallowing, senex-destroyer — the very ambivalence that makes him indispensable to depth psychology’s account of the father complex, generational conflict, and the puer-senex polarity.