Tyranny occupies a structurally pivotal position in the depth-psychology corpus, functioning simultaneously as a political category, a psychic condition, and a diagnostic for civilizational pathology. The tradition’s most sustained treatment begins with Plato, whose Republic traces tyranny as the terminal degeneration of democracy — the inevitable harvest of excess liberty, wherein the soul’s rational governance collapses under the dominion of unruly appetites, producing a figure who, though master of others, is in truth the most enslaved of all. This Platonic framework is absorbed and extended by depth psychology proper: Jung reads mass psychology and totalitarian governance as the political expression of an unconscious that has been robbed of its individual container, arguing that wherever the road to infantile dependence opens, the road to tyranny follows. Hillman, working from a polytheistic psychology, locates tyranny’s root in the mind’s fantasy of itself as a solitary, absolute governor — the monotheistic inflation of a single psychic agency over all others. Von Franz identifies a micro-tyranny in the inferior function’s touchiness and its coercive demand on the surrounding environment. Alexander extends the Platonic genealogy into the analysis of addiction and free-market society. Across these registers, tyranny names not merely political oppression but any configuration — intrapsychic, social, or constitutional — in which absolute, unaccountable sovereignty displaces the relational, pluralistic order on which both psyche and polity depend.