ABSTRACT
In an effort to achieve a sense of balance between coherence and chaos, Schore, Bucci, Chefetz, and Fosshage, have provided footholds of clarity and understanding as therapists consider various aspects of the implicit and explicit domains. Schore, bringing together a wide range of data, posits a model which highlights the major importance of the developing infant and young child's right brain. Emerging from attachment experiences of child and caregiver, the right brain is the site of "the implicit self", which essentially encodes mainly imagistic symbolic and Bucci's subsymbolic processes. Bucci has proposed a theory of psychological organization or theory of mind organized around the interaction of different forms of thought or representation: the multiple code theory. This chapter talks about the ways in which implicit and explicit domains are conceptualized cognitively, neurobiologically, and psychoanalytically and informs the manner in which we think about psychoanalytic change and therapeutic action.
