primary processes

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plural noun

1. psychoanal unconscious, irrational thought processes, such as condensation or displacement, governed by the pleasure principle Compare secondary processes

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primary processes

Learning, humour; these more advanced capabilities are known as secondary processes, but the primary processes are built in by evolution as part of the instincts for living in the basement of the brain.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 17, 2015

And rather than the primary processes, which are automatic, these secondary processes require more thinking.

From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2012

Yet these few universal ideas are but the rudiments of ethics, and no more constitute an ethical system worthy of the name, than the four primary processes of arithmetic constitute a system of mathematical science.

From Buchanan's Journal of Man, March 1887 Volume 1, Number 2 by Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes) Buchanan

We can no more expect, then, to observe the primary processes of Creation; and to these primary processes the condition of nebulosity has already been explained to belong.

From Eureka: A Prose Poem by Edgar A. Poe

The primary processes in the present case have been carried out before seeking the attention of the reader, to whom the first approximations have been presented under three heads.

From The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan