Overdetermination

The overdetermination describes multiple, independent, concurrent causes of an event.

According to Sigmund Freud, the dream is over-determined, because "most of the dream-thoughts ausgiebigste touches have " and pose as "nodes " in which " meet many of the dream-thoughts ." The Dream Interpretation must therefore take account of the ambiguity. - Wolfgang Loch, together with Arthur Kronfeld viewed the determination of mental life to be central to the psychoanalytic work and assessed this interpretation and protocol statements as " non-party tools " of the deep psychological research method. Interpretations should be regarded as experimental tests to be assigned to perform the protocol adopted in the various determinants statements as evidence relevant for the causal factors. This occurred similar to the " surgeon's knife " the diagnosis of abscess confirmed. Such determinants can situational behavior, Widerholungszwang, superego, and it represents, between which a relationship is set up. It is similar to a magnetic field that makes the iron filings in a certain order. The interpretation of dream symbols subject here in principle the same conditions.

Louis Althusser speaks in the essay " contradiction and overdetermination " (1968 ), in a historical and political meaning of the social forces that might lead to an overdetermined event, the revolution. Elements are then determined if they are not due to a simple cause or have a clear meaning, but are fed by several sources and influence each other.