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Overdetermination was seen by Freud as affecting the symptom as well as the dream; in the wake of Jacques Lacan it is applied more broadly to all formations of the unconscious. It should not be taken, however, as a principle of very wide extension, but simply as the basis of that fluctuation of associations which makes different interpretations of the same psychic formation possible.
==See Also==
* [[Condensation]]
* [[Look/gaze]]
* [[Overinterpretation]]
* [[Paranoia]]
* [[Psychopathology of Everyday Life, The]]
* [[Rite and ritual]]
* [[Science and psychoanalysis]]
* [[Strata/stratification]]
* [[Studies on Hysteria]]
* [[Sum of excitation]]
* [[Symbolic, the (Lacan)]]
* [[Symbolism]]
==defReferences==<references/>The idea of overdetermination refers to the organization of multiple determinants combining to define a psychic formation# Freud, Sigmund. (1900a). The notion may be represented metaphorically as multiple nodes anchoring a web whose linking strands are lines interpretation of associated thoughtsdreams. The content of psychic formations understood in this way is determined by the points of intersection of the lines of associationSE, along which psychic energy flows as part of a process of displacement4-5.Another Freudian conceptualization of overdetermination# Freud, Sigmund, lateral and etiopathogenicBreuer,Josef. (1895d).Studies on hysteria.SE, 2: 48-106.
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