Within the depth-psychology corpus, ‘weapon’ functions far less as a literal instrument of warfare than as a charged symbolic vehicle registering the dynamics of power, mana, differentiation, and psychic transformation. The passages traverse several distinct registers. Harrison and Padel, working from Greek religion and tragedy respectively, establish the weapon as an extension of personality and a carrier of sacred force — the shield or arrow is not merely equipment but a condensed embodiment of divine will; the gods’ weapons turned upon humanity become the very medium of fate. Jung, in the Dream Analysis seminars, reads weapon-loss in heroic myth as a purposive act of the unconscious: the superior function, once weaponized for selfish ends, is stripped away so that a second function may emerge — deprivation as developmental imperative. Peterson deploys the flaming sword guarding Eden as the symbolic threshold-marker between ego-consciousness and the deeper self, a guardian-weapon encoding the impossibility of regressive return. Sullivan’s Heraclitean account identifies Zeus’s thunderbolt-weapon with the divine logos itself. Moore’s Warrior archetype frames the weapon as the instrument of focused clarity and decisive action in the service of transpersonal ideals. Taken together, these voices reveal a consistent depth-psychological tension: the weapon as simultaneously generative and destructive, a psychic tool that both empowers and enslaves its bearer.