The temporolimbic circuit does not appear as a discrete, uniformly defined entity across the depth-psychology corpus; rather, it emerges as a functional intersection point through which theorists of emotional development, affect regulation, and psychoneurobiology converge on the same anatomical terrain from different disciplinary vantages. Allan Schore’s monumental 1994 synthesis is the dominant voice here, treating the temporolimbic circuit as the neurobiological substrate through which early dyadic experience is literally inscribed into cortical-subcortical architecture. For Schore, the circuit’s developmental significance lies in how experience-dependent imprinting, particularly of the caregiver’s face, forges enduring reverberating assemblies linking orbitofrontal cortex, anterior temporal regions, and subcortical limbic structures. The critical-period maturation of these connections constitutes, in his framework, the neurobiological ground of the self. The circuit is implicated in long-term affective memory, face recognition, attachment formation, and the hierarchical regulation of limbic arousal. No other major voice in the corpus treats this circuit with comparable specificity, though Damasio’s ventromedial prefrontal emphasis, LeDoux’s defense-circuit architecture, and Panksepp’s subcortical emotional systems orbit the same functional territory without naming the temporolimbic circuit as such. The term thus functions in the corpus as Schore’s signature construct — a linchpin between developmental neurobiology and psychoanalytic object-relations theory.