Primal may refer to:
Psychotherapy
* Primal (in
primal therapy
Primal therapy is a Psychological trauma, trauma-based psychotherapy created by Arthur Janov during the 1960s, who argued that neurosis is caused by the Psychological repression, repressed Psychological pain, pain of childhood trauma. Janov argued ...
), the core concept, which denotes the full reliving and cathartic release of an early traumatic experience
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Primal scene (in psychoanalysis), refers to the fantasizing or witnessing by a young child of a sex act between parents
Mathematics
* Primal, an old
mathematics term for a projective hypersurface
* Primal problem, a component of the
duality principle in mathematical optimization theory
Entertainment
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"Primal" (Eureka episode), an episode of TV series ''Eureka''
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''Primal'' (video game), an action video game for the PlayStation 2
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''Primal'' (TV series), a 2019 animated television series
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''Primal'' (2019 film), a 2019 film starring Nicolas Cage
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Optimus Primal, a character in ''Transformers''
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''The Lost Tribe'' (2010 film), a film whose Australian DVD was entitled ''Primal''
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''Primal'' (2010 film), an Australian horror film directed by Josh Reed
* ''
Far Cry Primal'', a 2016 video game
Other
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Primal cut
A primal cut or cut of meat is a piece of meat
Meat is animal Tissue (biology), tissue, often muscle, that is eaten as food. Humans have hunted and farmed other animals for meat since prehistory. The Neolithic Revolution allowed the domesti ...
, several types of cuts of meat
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Primal Pictures, the producer of 3D Interactive Anatomy Software
See also
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Primal Fear (disambiguation)
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Prime (disambiguation)
A prime is a natural number that has exactly two distinct natural number divisors: 1 and itself.
Prime or PRIME may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters
* Prime (comics), a comic book character
* Dyson Aliens or ...
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