An inability to generalize or perform abstraction accompanied by excessive concentration on specific details, as in a mental disorder or in cognition by children.
Something specific which is the result of a process of concretizing a general principle or idea.
The process of concretizing a general principle or idea by delineating, particularizing, or exemplifying it.
The unconscious mental representation of one thing by another.
The act of symbolizing; the use of symbols to represent things, or the investing of things with a symbolic meaning.