First, overdetermination is problematic in particular from the viewpoint of a standard counterfactual understanding of causation, according to which an event is the cause of another event if and only if the latter would not have occurred, had the former not occurred.
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Ed ., says that Althusser s major concepts Ideological State Apparatuses, Interpellation, Imaginary relations, and Overdetermination permeate the discourse of contemporary literary and cultural theory, and his theory of ideology has influenced virtually all subsequent serious work on the topic.
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Justin Chang of " Variety " wrote I��rritu " increasingly succumbs to the air of grim overdetermination that has marred much of [ his ] past work " and it was " an imposing vision . . . but also an inflated and emotionally stunted one ."
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His essay " Contradiction and Overdetermination " borrows the concept of overdetermination from psychoanalysis, in order to replace the idea of " contradiction " with a more complex model of multiple causality in political situations ( an idea closely related to Antonio Gramsci's concept of cultural hegemony .)
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His essay " Contradiction and Overdetermination " borrows the concept of overdetermination from psychoanalysis, in order to replace the idea of " contradiction " with a more complex model of multiple causality in political situations ( an idea closely related to Antonio Gramsci's concept of cultural hegemony .)
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His essay " Contradiction and Overdetermination " borrows the concept of overdetermination from psychoanalysis, in order to replace the idea of " contradiction " with a more complex model of multiple causality in political situations ( an idea closely related to Gramsci's concept of hegemony ).
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His essay " Contradiction and Overdetermination " borrows the concept of overdetermination from psychoanalysis, in order to replace the idea of " contradiction " with a more complex model of multiple causality in political situations ( an idea closely related to Gramsci's concept of hegemony ).
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His essay " Contradiction and Overdetermination " borrows the concept of overdetermination from psychoanalysis, in order to replace the idea of " contradiction " with a more complex model of multiple causality in political situations ( an idea closely related to Antonio Gramsci's concept of hegemony ).
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His essay " Contradiction and Overdetermination " borrows the concept of overdetermination from psychoanalysis, in order to replace the idea of " contradiction " with a more complex model of multiple causality in political situations ( an idea closely related to Antonio Gramsci's concept of hegemony ).
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It follows that P is nomologically sufficient for P " and hence qualifies as its cause & If M is somehow retained as a cause, we are faced with the highly implausible consequence that every case of downward causation involves overdetermination ( since P remains a cause of P " as well ).
