The Hanged Man occupies a peculiar and productive tension within the depth-psychological tarot corpus: it is simultaneously the card of voluntary suspension and involuntary arrest, of sacred sacrifice and social disgrace, of initiation and paralysis. The major voices — Nichols, Pollack, Jodorowsky, Banzhaf, Hamaker-Zondag, Place, and von Franz — converge on the figure’s inversion as the central psychological event, yet diverge sharply in their accounts of what that inversion accomplishes. Nichols, reading through a Jungian lens, treats the Hanged Man as the archetype of enforced interiority, the ego stripped of its persona and forced to confront what alone can support it. Pollack frames the same gesture as an act of surrender — not passive but initiatory — linking it to T. S. Eliot’s Waste Land and the Grail mysteries. Jodorowsky situates the figure at the intersection of gestation and sacred non-doing, a practitioner of the ‘wet path’ who has shed knowledge itself. Banzhaf correlates the card’s cross-sum numerology with The Empress, opposing outer growth to inner root-formation. Von Franz, approaching obliquely through fairy-tale motifs, excavates the archaic sacrificial logic of hanging — Wotan on Yggdrasil, Christ on the cross — revealing the mythological substrate beneath every tarot treatment of the figure. The collective testimony of the corpus establishes The Hanged Man as the Major Arcana’s central figure of liminality: the threshold between ego-achievement and individuation, between doing and becoming.