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overdetermination
[ oh-ver-di-tur-muh-ney-shuhn ]
noun
, Psychoanalysis.
- the concept that a single emotional symptom or event, as a dream or a slip of the tongue, may be caused by more than one factor.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of overdetermination1
1915–20; over- + determination, translation of German Überdeterminierung (Freud)
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Example Sentences
The influence of the moon in this moon affectivity is very little known, especially in its psychic overdetermination.
From Project Gutenberg
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