Primal

Primal can refer to:

  • An old term for a hypersurface in mathematics.
  • Primal (verb or noun) denotes the reliving of an early painful feeling according to the primal therapy of Arthur Janov
  • Primal, a season 1 episode of Eureka
  • Primal, an action video game for the PlayStation 2
  • Primal Pictures, the producer of 3D Interactive Anatomy Software, established in 1991
  • Optimus Primal
  • Several types of cuts of beef, primarily classified as either American Primals, or British Primals.
  • Primal, the Australian DVD title of the 2010 film The Lost Tribe
  • Primal, 2010 horror film by Josh Reed with Zoe Tuckwell-Smith, Krew Boylan and Lindsay Farris

Famous quotes containing the word primal:

    One of life’s primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the delicious thrill of hiding while the others come looking for you, the delicious terror of being discovered, but what panic when, after a long search, the others abandon you! You mustn’t hide too well. You mustn’t be too good at the game. The player must never be bigger than the game itself.
    Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)

    The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
    Sir William Osler (1849–1919)

    For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)