The term ‘target’ operates across several distinct registers within the depth-psychology corpus, and its precise meaning shifts markedly depending on the theoretical framework in which it appears. In EMDR literature, most fully developed by Shapiro, ‘target’ designates the specific traumatic memory or distressing incident that becomes the focal point of bilateral stimulation and reprocessing — a technically delimited object of therapeutic intervention situated within a memory network. Schwartz, writing from within the Internal Family Systems paradigm, repurposes the term to denote a ‘target part’: a discrete sub-personality selected for focused internal inquiry, distinguished from reactive parts through the felt-sense question ‘How do you feel toward it?’ In emotion psychology, Lench and the contributors she assembles configure ‘target’ as the interpersonal object of an emotion’s coercive or regulatory strategy — most prominently in the phenomenology of anger, where the target is the person whose behavior one seeks to change. Psychotherapy outcome research, particularly Leichsenring’s meta-analyses of long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy, employs ‘target problems’ as a standard measurement category alongside symptom severity and social functioning. Finally, neurocognitive research on ADHD (Rubia, Wong) uses ‘target’ in a strictly operationalized stimulus-detection sense. The term thus traverses clinical protocol, parts-psychology, emotion theory, outcome measurement, and experimental neuropsychology — making it a site of productive, if underacknowledged, conceptual plurality.