overdetermination

overdetermination
/oh"veuhr di terr'meuh nay"sheuhn/, n. Psychoanal.
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.
[1915-20; OVER- + DETERMINATION, trans. of G Überdeterminierung (Freud)]

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