Within the depth-psychology corpus, ‘street’ operates less as a topographical term than as a psychosocial threshold — the liminal zone where inner states collide with collective reality, where psychopathology becomes legible in public space, and where the consequences of cultural policies are inscribed on living bodies. The range of positions is considerable. Abraham’s classical psychoanalytic reading treats ‘street anxiety’ (Strassenangst) as a specific neurotic formation, linking locomotor dread to suppressed eroticism and the unconscious pleasure of movement — a rigorously clinical framing. Jung, by contrast, deploys the street as a scene of social performance and persona-management: what one wears on the street signals conformity to collective expectation, making the street the arena of the social mask. In the addiction literature — particularly Hari and Maté — the street becomes a site of devastation and, paradoxically, of political awakening: the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver and the corners of New York City figure as theaters of the drug war’s human cost and, eventually, of organized resistance. Kandel’s memoir treats the named street as a marker of biographical memory and cultural belonging. Across these positions, ‘street’ consistently indexes the tension between inner life and collective order, between vulnerability and exposure, between marginalization and assertion.