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

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

These leading or primary transformations of axial energy, in which the incepting influence is associated with the primary mass only, we term primary processes.

From The Energy System of Matter A Deduction from Terrestrial Energy Phenomena by Weir, James

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 Poe, Edgar A.

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 Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)