Sentence examples for primal scene from inspiring English sources
noun
In Freudian theory, the first time a child witnesses (and understands) its parents copulating.
It's the show's primal scene.
Each television genre has its primal scene.
("A kind of primal scene of eating hovers over every cookbook, just as a primal scene of sex lurks behind every love story").
Stanley Coren, a psychologist and dog trainer, is haunted by a primal scene.
It had the air of a primal scene: the supervillain and his child victim.
Going back to our own primal scene, that's why the husband turns those pages.
The primal scene was divided between two Boston museums where I spent a lot of time.
It's a primal scene of American drama: The angry, uncomprehending father argues with his rebellious son.
For them the primal scene of revulsion at the liberal mind-set stays forever fresh.
By Larissa MacFarquhar Stanley Coren, a psychologist and dog trainer, is haunted by a primal scene.
He sees dramatic conflict as a search for what psychoanalysts call the primal scene.
