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noun Psychoanalysis.

the generally unorganized mental activity characteristic of the unconscious and occurring in dreams, fantasies, and related processes.

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How to use primary process in a sentence

I don’t think we can downplay the strategic considerations that went into the development of the primary process.
Is Our Primary System Broken?|Sarah Frostenson (sarah.frostenson@abc.com)|June 3, 2021|FiveThirtyEight
That might be a hard sell, of course, considering a state like New Jersey has often voted at the end of the primary process, and underdog candidates would prefer not to run ads in the expensive media markets of Chicago, New York and Philadelphia.
Many Democrats Are Sick Of Iowa And New Hampshire Going First, But The Primary Calendar Is Unlikely To Change|Geoffrey Skelley (geoffrey.skelley@abc.com)|April 8, 2021|FiveThirtyEight
Scruff believes that sex is not the primary concern of users.
Grindr’s Trans Dating Problem|David Levesley|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
In the process, we get straightjacketed into emotionally distant, competitive lives.
How Good Dads Can Change the World|Gary Barker, PhD, Michael Kaufman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Or how much richer a few rich Mexicans are going to get in the process?
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He has picked pre-primary brawls with Christie, Perry, and Marco Rubio.
Rand Paul’s Passive-Aggressive Trolling Campaign|Olivia Nuzzi|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
“You try to always scratch where the itch is,” Huckabee said about his campaigning and rhetoric in the 2008 primary.
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On certain of the stems the fertile cone appears and the spores are ripened about June, after which the process withers.
How to Know the Ferns|S. Leonard Bastin
Besides this fundamental or primary vibration, the movement divides itself into segments, or sections, of the entire length.
Expressive Voice Culture|Jessie Eldridge Southwick
What the ear hears is the fundamental pitch only; the overtones harmonize with the primary or fundamental tone, and enrich it.
Expressive Voice Culture|Jessie Eldridge Southwick
By the second process, it is made to the advantage of the issuer of the notes to hasten their withdrawal himself.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
The quickening of one part of the process necessitated the "speeding up" of all the others.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock

Medical definitions for primary process

primary process

In psychoanalysis, the mental process directly related to the functions of the id and characteristic of unconscious mental activity, marked by unorganized, illogical thinking and by the tendency to seek immediate discharge and gratification of instinctual demands.