Primal may refer to:
Psychotherapy
* ''Primal'', the core concept in
primal therapy
Primal therapy is a trauma-based psychotherapy created by Arthur Janov, who argues that neurosis is caused by the repressed pain of childhood trauma. Janov argues that repressed pain can be sequentially brought to conscious awareness for resolutio ...
, denotes the full reliving and cathartic release of an early traumatic experience
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Primal scene (in psychoanalysis), refers to the witnessing by a young child of a sex act, usually between the parents, which traumatizes the child
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, several types of cuts of meat
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Primal Pictures
Primal Pictures is a business established in 1991 that provides 3D graphic renderings of human anatomy, built using real scan data from the Visible Human Project, for use by healthcare students, educators, and medical professionals. It operates t ...
, 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 T ...
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