The figure of the King occupies a central and contested position across the depth-psychology corpus. Its range extends from the archaic to the intrapsychic: at the cosmological pole, the King is a carrier of sacred, life-sustaining power whose health guarantees the vitality of an entire people — a motif documented by von Franz through Frazerian ethnology and by Moore through Egyptian, Canaanite, and Mesopotamian myth. At the psychological pole, the King becomes an autonomous complex or archetypal energy within the masculine psyche, responsible for order, fertility, and centered authority. Moore’s systematic account in King Warrior Magician Lover establishes the King as the primary archetype of mature masculinity, capable of both generative blessing and catastrophic inflation into the Tyrant. Bly situates the Sacred King in an invisible, mythological world that exerts magnetic force on human emotion and perception, carefully distinguishing it from the political king whose modern degradation imperils the father-image. Von Franz reads the king in fairy tales as the dominant of the collective conscious attitude, a ruling principle that can grow sterile and require renewal. The alchemical tradition, surveyed by Abraham and Edinger, frames the king’s dissolution and resurrection as the central drama of the opus. Together these perspectives reveal a term whose significance is inseparable from questions of order, legitimacy, sacrifice, renewal, and the relationship between human authority and transpersonal power.