What's the difference between primal and primitive?

Primal


Definition:

  • (a.) First; primary; original; chief.

Example Sentences:

  • (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.

Primitive


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first; as, primitive innocence; the primitive church.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity; as, a primitive style of dress.
  • (a.) Original; primary; radical; not derived; as, primitive verb in grammar.
  • (n.) An original or primary word; a word not derived from another; -- opposed to derivative.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cloacal exstrophy, centered on the maldevelopment of the primitive streak mesoderm and cloacal membrane, results in bladder and intestinal exstrophy, omphalocele, gender confusion, and hindgut deformity.
  • (2) Evx-1 RNA is first detected shortly before the onset of gastrulation in a region of ectoderm containing cells that will soon be found in the primitive streak.
  • (3) As an extension of the previous study which indicated that mesoglea is a primitive basement membrane which has retained some characteristics of interstitial extracellular matrix, the present study was undertaken to analyze the role of mesoglea components during head regeneration in Hydra vulgaris.
  • (4) neuroblastomas, primitive neuroectodermal tumours (PNETs), rhabdomyosarcomas and malignant lymphomas.
  • (5) We concluded that the primitive eukaryote D.discoideum contains proteins which show functional and physical similarity with the alpha-subunits of vertebrate G-proteins.
  • (6) Mechanisms are suggested whereby rudimentary appetitive programs already encoded along facing dendrite membrane pairs within the specialized intrafascicular milieu, may trigger and control nipple search and suckling in the still blind and only primitively mobile neonate.
  • (7) Thus, the progeny of infected primitive multipotential cells are competent to express integrated proviruses.
  • (8) Multiple tuberculomas have simulated either an alcoolic encephalopathy in one case or a primitive cerebral tumour in another one.
  • (9) This increased cell flow down the early stages of the red cell pathway in CML suggests that heightened proliferation and differentiation of primitive hemopoietic cells may be a more general phenomenon than previously suspected in this disease.
  • (10) The Lerner & Lerner Scale for assessing primitive defenses is reviewed.
  • (11) Only tumors of astrocytic lineage like astrocytomas and glioblastomas, or tumors of mixed lineage as oligo-astrocytomas and multipotential primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNET) expressed TNF-alpha-like immunoreactivity.
  • (12) This epithelial cell was tentatively identified as primitive extraembryonic endoderm by its ultrastructural appearance and its possession of cytokeratin intermediate filaments.
  • (13) The long-term culture corresponded to mouse MXT and MCF-7 cell lines whereas the primary culture corresponded to primitive breast cancers squashed onto histologic slides and maintained in cultures for between 12 and 48 h. Cell proliferation was evaluated by means of digital cell image analysis of Feulgen-stained nuclei.
  • (14) From these facts, it was concluded that the follicular, as well as acanthomatous, ameloblastoma is liable to undergo squamous differentiation, whereas the plexiform ameloblastoma remains in primitive stage of tumor differentiation.
  • (15) A cluster of spermatogonia may be derived from one primitive germ cell and it develops round a "Sertoli" cell.
  • (16) Shielded marrow self renewal capacity, a measurement reflecting primitive hematopoietic stem cell function, remained depressed and did not recover with time.
  • (17) In a 3-year-old child, a rare combination of a Dandy-Walker syndrome, a primitive trigeminal artery and a facial haemangioma was found.
  • (18) As the histochemical and ultrastructural findings are non specific, we believe, according to recent opinions, that this tumor could originate in a very primitive cell, able to differentiate to endocrine or exocrine elements, almost always incompletely.
  • (19) It is likely that the development of these malignancies is an expression of the multipotential nature of primitive germ cells.
  • (20) Morphology of the mature spermatozoon is modified from that of the classic primitive or ect-aquasperm type by having 1) the acrosome embedded in the nucleus (the only known example within the Mollusca), 2) a deep basal invagination in the nucleus containing proximal and distal centrioles and an enveloping matrix (derived from the rootlet), 3) laterally displaced periaxonemal mitochondria, and 4) a tail extending from the basal invagination of the nucleus.