title: Symbolic
text: # Symbolic
  
  Symbolic may refer to:
  
  ## Mathematics, logic, and computing
  
  * Symbolic computation, a scientific area concerned with computing with mathematical formulas
  * Symbolic dynamics, a method for modeling dynamical systems by a discrete space consisting of infinite sequences of abstract symbols
  * Symbolic execution, the analysis of computer programs by tracking symbolic rather than actual values
  * Symbolic link, a special type of file in a computer memory storage system
  * Symbolic logic, the use of symbols for logical operations in logic and mathematics
  
  ## Music
  
  * Symbolic (Death album), a 1995 album by the band Death
  * Symbolic (Voodoo Glow Skulls album), a 2000 album by the band Voodoo Glow Skulls
  
  ## Social sciences
  
  * Symbolic anthropology, the study of cultural symbols and how those symbols can be interpreted to better understand a particular society
  * Symbolic capital, the resources available to an individual on the basis of honor, prestige or recognition in sociology and anthropology
  * Symbolic interaction, a system of interaction in sociology
  * Symbolic system, a structured system of symbols in anthropology, sociology and psychology
  * The Symbolic or Symbolic Order, Jacques Lacan's attempt to contrast with The Imaginary and The Real in psychoanalysis
  