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overdeˈtermine, v. [over- 24.] trans. To determine, account for, or cause in more than one way, or with more conditions than are necessary. So overdeˈtermined ppl. a., having more determining factors than the minimum necessary; having more than one cause; spec. in Psychol., giving expression to more than one need or desire; overdeˈtermining vbl. n.
1879Encycl. Brit. X. 377/2 The definitions which have not been mentioned are all ‘nominal definitions’, that is to say, they fix a name for the thing described. Many of them overdetermine a figure. 1917C. R. Payne tr. Pfister's Psychoanal. Method 143 The neurotic symptom has several determining factors, at least two. Therefore, it is called over-determined. 1924C. M. Baines tr. Freud's ætiology of Hysteria in Coll. Papers I. x. 213 The idea chosen as the basis of a symptom will be one which various factors combine to arouse and which is stirred up from several directions simultaneously;—a state of affairs I have elsewhere tried to formulate by saying that hysterical symptoms are over-determined. 1950Mind LIX. 199 My large-scale map of the small area occupied by θ will show that its display of Q is over-determined. 1959I. Pool in Saporta & Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 308/1 The third of the overdetermining influences in the development of contingency analysis was structural linguistics. 1969G. Stedman Jones in Cockburn & Blackburn Student Power 30 Mass student insurgency is par excellence an ‘overdetermined’ phenomenon. 1974J. White tr. Poulantzas's Fascism & Dictatorship i. iii. 40 The economic process is overdetermined by the class struggle, which has primacy. |