Primal

Primal therapy

Primal therapy is a trauma-based psychotherapy created by Arthur Janov during the 1960s, who argued that neurosis is caused by the repressed pain of childhood trauma. Janov argued that repressed pain can be sequentially brought to conscious awareness for resolution through re-experiencing specific incidents and fully expressing the resulting pain during therapy. Primal therapy was developed as a means of eliciting the repressed pain; the term Pain is capitalized in discussions of primal therapy when referring to any repressed emotional distress and its purported long-lasting psychological effects. Janov believed that talking therapies deal primarily with the cerebral cortex and higher-reasoning areas and do not access the source of Pain within the more basic parts of the central nervous system.

Primal scene

In psychoanalysis, the primal scene is the theory of the initial unconscious fantasy of a child of a sex act, between the parents, that organises the psychosexual development of that child.

Primal (TV series)

Primal is an American adult animated action horror television series created by Genndy Tartakovsky for Cartoon Network's night-time programming block Adult Swim. Produced by Cartoon Network Studios, it is the first full production from the company to be developed for Adult Swim.

primal

Adjective

1. Being the first in time or in history.
2. Of greatest importance; primary.

Noun

1. A primal cut (of meat).
2. The first element of something, especially the first letter of a word.