title: Primal
text: # Primal
  
  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 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
  
  * "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 game
  
  ## Other
  
  * Primal cut, several types of cuts of meat
  * Primal Pictures, the producer of 3D Interactive Anatomy Software
  