The initiation ceremony concludes when the student kindles the sacrificial fire and begs for alms, symbolic of his dependence on others during his brahmacharin period.
The relation between the replicator (hardware) and the image (a structure of symbols, the software) is a functional relation of dependence, since the symbolic representation consists of directives and instructions that must be interpreted by the replicator machinery for constructing a copy of itself.
Moreover, India's governments viewed the crisis as symbolic of the farmers' personal frailty and dependence.
The copying, bending and breaking of the Ring-disc was the most visible rebellion against his inner dependence on Wieland, but this symbolic murder had been preceded by many years during which the elder brother's intellectual property had been appropriated and exploited.
As Lacan integrates his early work of the 1930s and 1940s with his structuralism-informed theories of the 1950s, he comes to emphasize the dependence of the Imaginary on the Symbolic.
Or is it not rather a dependence on a broader range of symbolic media including, besides language, also such things as painting, sculpture, and music — so that a person might be able to entertain thoughts which he was not able to express in language but only in some other symbolic medium?
But it is symbolic of Mr. Hatoyama's efforts to reduce his country's dependence on the United States, and assert more independence on diplomatic issues.
We can see a double dependence on the Ego in Weyl's idea of symbolic construction to get hold of an objective world beyond the mental.
In many respects, Mattoon, Illinois, like the coalfields of Appalachia, is emerging as a symbolic litmus test for Obama administration's plan to break our nation from its dependence on fossil fuels.
The banks are already paying a price for their dependence on the public purse, in ways both substantial (higher capital ratios) and symbolic (lower pay packages).
The reasons for this prediction remain compelling: symbolic problems are crisply expressible in formal language, they are largely free of much of the noise and dependence on world knowledge, and human and animal performance on symbolic tasks does not appear to be supported by large swaths of specialized cortex.
