Fertility in the depth-psychology corpus operates on multiple registers simultaneously: as literal agricultural and biological generativity, as archetype embedded in the Great Mother complex, as ritual necessity demanding sacrifice, and as a symbolic pole against which higher, spiritual forms of creativity are measured. Neumann provides the most sustained treatment, tracing fertility rites from their blood-soaked prehistoric origins through the matriarchal cults of Adonis, Attis, and Osiris, arguing that sacrificial death — castration, dismemberment, and the offering of the king — was understood as the indispensable cost of earthly fecundity. His crucial move is to distinguish a ‘lower,’ phallic-vegetative fertility from a ‘higher’ fertility associated with spiritual transformation, exemplified by the paradox of Osiris: a fertility god who generates without a phallus. Harrison approaches fertility through its daimonic antecedents in Greek religion, showing the Agathos Daimon as a primitive fertility-spirit underlying later Olympian forms. Hillman introduces a startling counterpoint, linking fertility to laughter in the Abraham-Sarah narrative, while also examining the long philosophical suppression of female generative power in Western embryological theory. Turner’s ethnographic passages ground fertility in living ritual symbolism among the Ndembu. Across all voices, fertility is never merely biological: it is the site where life and death, masculine and feminine, nature and spirit converge in perpetual, unresolved tension.