释义 |
ˌoverdetermiˈnation [f. next.] The existence of more than one cause or contributory factor; spec. in Psychol., the expression in one symptom of two or more needs or desires.
1917C. R. Payne tr. Pfister's Psychoanal. Method 143 We have often had opportunity..to show these over⁓determinations. 1925A. & J. Strachey tr. Freud's Analysis of Case of Hysteria in Coll. Papers III. 73 In the world of reality..a complication of motives, an accumulation and conjunction of mental activities—in a word, over⁓determination—is the rule. 1940Mind XLIX. 370 A doubt such as ‘I can never really know what another person is feeling’ may arise from more than one of these sources. This over-determination of sceptical symptoms complicates their cure. 1955J. Strachey tr. Freud's Infantile Neurosis in Compl. Psychol. Wks. XVII. 56 The contradiction is easily resolved if we regard it as a case of overdetermination. 1967Philos. XLII. 374 There is a special kind of plurality, namely overdetermination. 1970B. Brewster tr. Althusser & Balibar's Reading Capital (1975) 315 The overdetermination of a contradiction is the reflection in it of its conditions of existence within the complex whole, that is, of the other contradictions in the complex whole, in other words its uneven development. 1973S. Heath in Screen Spring/Summer 111 Underground cinema..has attempted to break through..the particular ideological overdetermination of the camera. 1975New Left Rev. Nov.–Dec. 14 The ideological over⁓determination is itself a forced response, and what forces it is a material dilemma. |