Within the depth-psychology corpus, ‘wrapping’ functions as a richly layered symbol operating simultaneously on somatic, cosmological, and initiatory registers. R. B. Onians provides the most sustained scholarly excavation, demonstrating that in archaic Greek thought the wrapping — whether a narrow band, a wide cloak, or a death-shroud — served as the concrete, quasi-material vehicle through which fate, disease, altered states of consciousness, and passage across ontological thresholds were visualized and enacted. For Onians, wrapping is never merely metaphorical: it names a covering that actively confers or transforms the state of the one enveloped, linking funerary practice, initiatory ceremony, and the binding power of divine decree. Murray Stein’s clinical dream material extends this logic into depth-psychological encounter: the hieratic figure who wraps a dreamer in Egyptian linen signals precisely the transformative investiture Onians traces to Homeric and mystery-religion contexts. In the somatic-trauma tradition, Ogden treats the wrapping gesture — arms around the body — as a bottom-up self-regulatory resource that retrieves internalized attachment experience. DBT literature similarly instrumentalizes wrapping as a sensory self-soothing act. The spectrum across these voices — from archaic cosmology to clinical technique — reveals a consistent structural logic: wrapping demarcates a threshold, encloses what must be transformed, and mediates between inner state and outer world.