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 resolut ...
, denotes the full reliving and cathartic release of an early traumatic experience
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Primal scene
Primal may refer to:
Psychotherapy
* ''Primal'', the core concept in primal therapy, denotes the full reliving and cathartic release of an early traumatic experience
* Primal scene (in psychoanalysis), refers to the witnessing by a young child ...
(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
Optimus Prime, , is a fictional character in the ''Transformers'' franchise. The Transformers characters were developed for an American market after Hasbro representatives visited the 1983 Tokyo Toy Show. The characters were modified and the ...
, 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
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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 initially separated from the carcass of an animal during butchering. Examples of primals include the round, loin, rib, and chuck for beef or the ham, loin, Boston butt, and picnic for pork.
Differe ...
, 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
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