To Freud, dreaming provided a playground for the unconscious mind; to Jung, it was a stage where the psyche's archetypes acted out primal themes.
In a front-page rave in the Times Book Review, Lowell wrote that the poetry's "primal themes have come down from the attic".
THE remodeled and enlarged Montclair Art Museum has opened its special exhibitions galley with an ambitious show, "Primal Visions: Albert Bierstadt Discovers Americaca," whose theme incorporates the idea of new beginnings.
The parallel dramas underline the universal theme of primal jealousy, as fathers confront the prospect of their sons superseding them.
Like an ancient cave drawing, Mendieta's art gets as close as possible to her subject matter allowing no excess, using primal and visceral means to navigate her themes.
The album contains no "conceptual underpinnings", instead focusing on themes that are personal and intimate to Stevens himself; the label Asthmatic Kitty describes the themes as "personal and primal … love, sex, death, disease, illness, anxiety, and suicide".
If the idea of ritual was the evening's unspoken theme, nothing was as full of primal spirit as Mr. Morris's "Grand Duo".
Mutation and disfiguration are common themes in Cronenberg's films, where primal violence and raw sexual instinct affect every one of the filmmaker's subjects.
With a track listing that puts "Prelude to a Kiss" alongside original themes like "Dark Matter" and "Equilibrium," the album refutes hierarchy; every theme is subject to revision or recontextualization. ("Primal Harmonic," Mr. Shipp's oblique nod to Alice Coltrane, comes bracketed by stern readings of "Greensleeves" and "What a Friend We Have in Jesus").
