The most common use is to change analog signals into a form that can be manipulated by digital computer, as in data communications. You employ this process when you use your computer's microphone to record sounds, for instance. Makers of analogies generally infer that if these things are so similar then they are probably alike in other ways. Analogies are usually made to illustrate or explain complex or unfamiliar ideas. Any things similar or alike in such a way as to permit the drawing of an analogy may be called analogous.
Analogy is a basic component of symbolism .
In New Lectures on Psychoanalysis . Also see appropriation , incongruity , metaphor , representation , simile , and simulacrum . The separation of the parts of a subject for individual study, in order to find out their nature, function , and meaning . Exercising the ability to break down learned material into its component parts so that its organizational structure may be understood. Analysis may include the identification of the parts, analysis of the relationships between parts, and recognition of the organizational principles involved.