symbolization

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Kong is a primal dream work, a symbolization of some deep and basic special anxiety of the species�and the only one created directly for the movies, having no ready roots in literature or folk lore.

From Time Magazine Archive

All this he can do with supreme skill because of his unique capacity for language and symbolization.

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The net result: "plastic cosmogony" � which means, he says, "no longer a symbolization or interpretation but, through the specific means of art, a direct visualization of the forces which move our mind and body."

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All the same, there were difficulties of symbolization, which is why the distinctions that early theologians drew between various levels of angels did not endure in art.

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This unification appears to have had its primary symbolization in the ritual activity which surrounded earlier ceremonies concerned with pine-nut harvesting.

From Washo Religion by Downs, James F.