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 of a sex act, usually between the parents, which traumatizes the childMathematics
* Primal, an old mathematics term for a projective hypersurface * Primal problem, a component of the duality principle in mathematical optimization theoryEntertainment
* "Primal" (Eureka episode), an episode of TV series ''Eureka'' * ''Primal'' (video game), an action video game for the PlayStation 2 * ''Primal'' (TV series), a 2019 animated television series * ''Primal'' (2019 film), a 2019 film starring Nicolas Cage * Optimus Primal, a character in ''Transformers'' * ''The Lost Tribe'' (2010 film), a film whose Australian DVD was entitled ''Primal'' * ''Primal'' (2010 film), an Australian horror film directed by Josh Reed * '' Far Cry Primal'', a 2016 video gameOther
*See also
* Primal Fear (disambiguation) * Prime (disambiguation) {{disambiguation