(n.) A corruption of pair royal. See under Pair, n.
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Primal
Definition:
(a.) First; primary; original; chief.
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(1) The psychological-interpersonal movement into triangulated oedipal object relations is mediated by the elaboration of mature forms of primal scene fantasies in conjunction with the development of a "transitional oedipal relationship" to the mother.
(2) The concept of the primal scene is in need of redefinition and clarification.
(3) This hypothesis is akin to Freud's theory of primal fantasies.
(4) It’s all well and good standing in a gallery and stroking your chin, but if you cast your eyes to the left and summon the concentration it takes to read the little rectangle of artistic blurb next to it, all of that context and explanation really helps transform that weird bit of twisted wire your kid could make into something deep and primal pulled from the soul.
(5) Brown went on to create six albums, bassist Mani joined Primal Scream, while Squire, who created the artwork for the band's first album, formed the short-lived Seahorses before deciding to concentrate on art.
(6) The movie excels in its many trading-floor sequences, great chaotic indoor crowd-scenes worthy of Raoul Walsh, in which we can glimpse the primal, quasi-animalistic governing urges that propel an unregulated – that's to say, totally lawless – free-market economy, as the hawks are granted licence to feast upon the sparrows.
(7) The issue of the analyst's and the patient's conviction concerning reconstructions that attempt to reach across the "primal repression barrier" is discussed.
(8) As infants are forced by experience to give up the 'internal illusion' of primal identification with the powerful mother, the sense of helplessness that ensues leads to secondary identification to create an 'external illusion' of oneness with the mother during heightened stress or tension.
(9) Her theory of the role of the primal object for the baby, as the provider of necessary psychological containment, a kind of psychological skin, has proven to be of great value for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists treating adults and children with skin problems.
(10) Direct emergence of primal repression is a threat to life and its activation is therefore risky.
(11) He has also recently completed a short film with Butterworth – The Clear Road Ahead , for Film Four, a story about a businessman who undergoes a kind of primal transformation in the woods – and is eager to do more screen work, if he can find the right script (though Jerusalem, he insists, will not be it: "We don't think it would be better than the thing that happens on stage").
(12) I can remember the beginning and the last few gigs with Primal Scream but everything else is interchangeable.
(13) The Pulitzer-winning novelist Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, joined the campaign "because censorship is the primal enemy of the artist and of a democratic society.
(14) Zimmerman drove traffic at the former site with what the Wall Street Journal described as "a deep connection to his audience's evolving, irreducibly human, primal sensibilities".
(15) Freud's initial notions accentuated the inhibiting, punitive aspects of the paternal representation, highlighting, as they did, the oedipal father of the primal horde.
(16) "I was just stunned that we won because the prize was in its infancy and people assumed it was an indie award [Primal Scream and Suede had won previously].
(17) Special attention is given to age and reactions at time of initial awareness of parents' sexual relationship and at time of any possible primal-scene witnessing, beliefs about parents' present sex lives, and interviewees' own ideas of how their parents' sexual attitudes and relationship may have influenced them.
(18) The importance of family-relationship patterns as determinants of reactions to primal-scene experience is emphasized.
(19) There are few reports about the methods, amounts, and kinds of dosage about intermittent intra-arterial chemotherapy of liver metastases from primal pathological type's squamous cell carcinoma.
(20) Carcass yield traits included preslaughter, abdominal fat, giblet, pelt, visceral and carcass weights and dressing percentage; lean yield traits consisted of uncooked lean percentages from forequarter, hindquarter and loin primal cuts, adjusted total lean weight and overall meat to bone ratio.