Imagine reading a book/paper/article. It's like diving into the ocean. Once you break the surface, you can swim down through layers. The water gets progressively colder and darker and more mysterious, but there's always something down there. Fish that you cannot find except for in the deep, plants that only grow on the ocean's floor. And then at some point, you can't see the surface any more.
When engaging in analysis, it's possible to go too deep, it go so far into a text/film/sound byte that you lose track of the original piece. It's possible to get caught up in the minutia and lose track of the whole.
I'd give an example, but I can't really think of one right now.
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