primary processes

British  

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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Example Sentences

Unsurprisingly then the primary processes are opaque, messy, and designed to promote the parties institutional interests at the expense of the will of the people.

From New York Times

Both major parties engineered their primary processes to avoid a drawn-out ideological battle and create a near-certain nominee by the middle of March, and in both cases the law of unintended consequences has come into play.

From Salon

“The brain is organized in evolutionary layers, starting with these feelings which we call the primary processes,” he says.

From The Guardian

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

With the recent advances in ultrabright electron and x-ray sources, it is now possible to extend crystallography to the femtosecond time domain to literally light up atomic motions involved in the primary processes governing structural transitions.

From Science Magazine