# Primal

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**Primal** may refer to:

## Psychotherapy

- Primal (in [primal therapy](/source/Primal_therapy)), the core concept, which denotes the full reliving and cathartic release of an early traumatic experience
- [Primal scene](/source/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](/source/Glossary_of_classical_algebraic_geometry#primal) for a projective hypersurface
- Primal problem, a component of the [duality principle](/source/Duality_(optimization)) in mathematical optimization theory

## Entertainment

- ["Primal" (Eureka episode)](/source/Primal_(Eureka_episode)), an episode of TV series *Eureka*
- [*Primal* (video game)](/source/Primal_(video_game)), an action video game for the PlayStation 2
- [*Primal* (TV series)](/source/Primal_(TV_series)), a 2019 animated television series
- [*Primal* (2019 film)](/source/Primal_(2019_film)), a 2019 film starring Nicolas Cage
- [Primal (Marvel Comics)](/source/Primal_(Marvel_Comics)), a character in Marvel Comics
- [Optimus Primal](/source/Optimus_Primal), a character in *Transformers*
- [*The Lost Tribe* (2010 film)](/source/The_Lost_Tribe_(2010_film)), a film whose Australian DVD was entitled *Primal*
- [*Primal* (2010 film)](/source/Primal_(2010_film)), an Australian horror film directed by Josh Reed
- *[Far Cry Primal](/source/Far_Cry_Primal)*, a 2016 video game

## Other

- [Primal cut](/source/Primal_cut), large wholesale parts of meat
- [Primal Pictures](/source/Primal_Pictures), the producer of 3D Interactive Anatomy Software

## See also

- [Primal Fear (disambiguation)](/source/Primal_Fear_(disambiguation))
- [Prime (disambiguation)](/source/Prime_(disambiguation))

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