Those primal drives had not gone away; they were simply being channeled in more modern times into an intense state-centered patriotism and xenophobia.

There was another, far more primal drive that urged her into his embrace.

Psychoanalytic theory, founded by Freud, emphasizes the role of guilt in repressing primal drives.

One can easily pacify the primal drives by regulating the breath.

These forces are primal drives emanating from the microbody (karmic body).

The desire to eat - as anyone who has seen a newborn freshly rooting for the breast will remember - is our primal drive.

The current crisis favors the primal drives and desires he calls reptilian.