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primal scene
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primal scene
n.
In psychoanalysis, the actual or imagined observation by a child of sexual intercourse, particularly between the parents.

primal scene
Psychiatry In psychoanalytic theory, the real or fancied observation by the infant of parental or other heterosexual intercourse


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