The werewolf occupies a distinctive and recurring position in the depth-psychological corpus, functioning simultaneously as myth, clinical metaphor, and symbol of the boundary between civilized consciousness and instinctual possession. Liz Greene, drawing on the Greek origins of lycanthropy, situates the werewolf squarely within the lunar domain of Artemis: the figure appears when solar consciousness collapses and the savage instinctual self erupts, destroying precisely those it loves. Walter Burkert traces the phenomenon to archaic Greek ritual—the Lykaia and the myth of Lykaon—where werewolfism is the mythological residue of cannibalism, sacrifice, and initiation into liminal masculine bands. For Jung, the werewolf belongs to the category of mana-projection: when psychic contents are cast outward onto another person, that person becomes ‘sorcerer, witch, werewolf, or the like.’ Rachel Pollack reads the werewolf as a Tarot emblem of the id’s eruption beneath lunar light, while Eliade situates lycanthropic lore within shamanic transformational complexes linking the human to the animal beyond. The tension running through the corpus is fundamentally one between possession and initiation: is the werewolf a catastrophic loss of ego to the archaic instinctual layer, or a threshold rite marking entry into deeper self-knowledge? The figure thus condenses anxieties about regression, the shadow, lunar madness, and the violence latent in eros.