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primal scene

noun

Etymology

Calque of German Urszene. Coined by Sigmund Freud in 1914.

  1. derived from Urszene

Definitions

  1. In Freudian theory, the first time a child witnesses (and understands) his or her parents…

    In Freudian theory, the first time a child witnesses (and understands) his or her parents copulating.

    • 1989, Andrew Samuels, The Plural Psyche:: Personality, Morality, and the Father, Routledge, →ISBN, page 123, The father's presence and image, together with those of the mother, form the raw material of the primal scene.

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