Within the depth-psychology corpus, ‘State’ operates across at least four distinct registers, each illuminating a different dimension of psychic and somatic life. In the psychiatric tradition represented by Janet, ‘state’ designates discrete alternating conditions of consciousness — numbered, compared, and clinically evaluated — whose succession defines the phenomenology of hysteria and double personality. Siegel and Schore, writing from developmental neuroscience, treat state as a dynamic neurobiological configuration: a plateau of activation that filters perception, memory, emotion, and behavior, and whose transitions constitute the very texture of self-continuity. In the polyvagal framework of Dana, state becomes an autonomic signature — ventral vagal, sympathetic, or dorsal vagal — legible through breath, muscle tone, and posture, and amenable to somatic tracking. The Shaivite contemplative literature rendered by Singh presents the term in its most ambitious register: a graduated ontological series culminating in the state of Śiva, in which observer and observed become identical, collapsing the subject-object structure that subtends all lesser states. Simondon contributes a further dimension, treating state as a phase-condition of a physical or psychic system — metastable, stable, or amorphous — whose transitions constitute individuation itself. The tension between state as subjective phenomenological given and state as objectifiable systemic configuration runs throughout the corpus, making this term a crucial nexus for questions of identity, continuity, and transformation.