I learned the math version before the Freud version, and maybe that's given me the wrong idea, but I don't think of Freud's version of "over-determined" as being a good thing. I think one of the things it can describe is some piece of behaviour that you would like to think has one explanation, which is at least partly valid, but for which there is also some other reason which you'd like to ignore.
In the Freudian schema, "overdetermination" is also a usually unavoidable schema; to pu it more positvely, it is an essential mechanism in what makes us human and individual.
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Can you insult Maureen Dowd with the Linear Algebra version?
Posted by joe o | Link to this comment | 02-28-05 10:53 AM
I learned the math version before the Freud version, and maybe that's given me the wrong idea, but I don't think of Freud's version of "over-determined" as being a good thing. I think one of the things it can describe is some piece of behaviour that you would like to think has one explanation, which is at least partly valid, but for which there is also some other reason which you'd like to ignore.
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In the Freudian schema, "overdetermination" is also a usually unavoidable schema; to pu it more positvely, it is an essential mechanism in what makes us human and individual.
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