Nourishment occupies a remarkably wide conceptual field in the depth-psychology corpus, moving between the literal and the symbolic, the physiological and the metaphysical, the individual and the cosmic. At its most concrete, the term designates food, digestion, and the biological sustenance of organic life — a dimension treated with philosophical precision in Aristotle’s De Anima, where nourishment is identified as the most fundamental psychic capacity, prior even to perception and desire. At its most expansive, as developed across multiple commentaries on Hexagram 27 of the I Ching (Yi, ‘Nourishment’), the term becomes a governing principle for inner cultivation, social responsibility, and spiritual transformation: heaven and earth nourish the myriad things; the sage nourishes the worthy and through them the people. A central tension in the corpus runs between self-nourishment and the nourishment of others — between the cultivation of one’s own depths and the capacity thereby to sustain a wider community. Thomas Moore and Robert Sardello press this further into soul psychology: the esophagus of the soul must reach deep enough; eating is an alchemical work transforming outer substance into inner being. James Hillman situates alimentary imagery within the opus of soul-making, noting the neglect of food and eating in mainstream depth psychology. Across traditions — Taoist, Confucian, Christian hesychast, Hindu — nourishment emerges as a test of character, discernment, and ethical orientation.