primal

Being the first in time or in history.

primal man

Of greatest importance; primary.

The most primal motion of all, of course, is vertical—a steady eternal fall into the infinity of space; speed cannot be ascribed to them, since, given the infinity of space and the absolute steadiness of the fall, no [relative] standard for it exists at all.

“We don’t know what life is. We do know what death is. It is change of habitat of ghost. I wish we had some sepate or house of bishops to tabulate these concepts. The law of togetherness and apartness is the most primal concept of life, Hence a crystal belongs as legitimately to the sphere of life as any seraph that blazes before the throne.” And so on for dreary pages.

Being one of the pieces of meat initially separated from the carcass during butchering, prior to division into smaller cuts.

A primal cut (of meat).

To take part in primal therapy.

One of my patients told me of an acquaintance who primaled in the shopping center. Janov described a patient who primaled on the tennis court. Apparently, once initiated, patients primal in any place at any time for the rest of their lives.

Primaling on the infant level seems so genuinely babyish that the unsophisticated observer may mistake it for psychotic behavior.