"" the representation of dream thoughts in images privileged by their condensation of a number of thoughts in a single image ( condensation ), or by the transference of psychic energy from a particularly potent thought to apparently trivial things . . . [ For Althusser ] overdetermination of a contradiction is the reflection in it of its conditions of existence within the complex whole . ""
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He says that'the ideas that the Althusserians generated, for example, of the interpellation of the subject, or of contradiction and overdetermination, possessed a surface allure, but it often seemed impossible to determine whether or not the theses in which those ideas figured were true, and, at other times, those theses seemed capable of just two interpretations : on one of them they were true but uninteresting, and, on the other, they were interesting, but quite obviously false '.
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The Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser imported the concept into Marxist political theory in an influential essay, " Contradiction and overdetermination . " Drawing from both Freud and Mao Zedong, Althusser used the idea of overdetermination as a way of thinking about the multiple, often opposed, forces active at once in any political situation, without falling into an overly simple idea of these forces being simply " contradictory . " Brewster, in Althusser et al .'s " Reading Capital " defines overdetermination as such:
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The Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser imported the concept into Marxist political theory in an influential essay, " Contradiction and overdetermination . " Drawing from both Freud and Mao Zedong, Althusser used the idea of overdetermination as a way of thinking about the multiple, often opposed, forces active at once in any political situation, without falling into an overly simple idea of these forces being simply " contradictory . " Brewster, in Althusser et al .'s " Reading Capital " defines overdetermination as such:
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The Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser imported the concept into Marxist political theory in an influential essay, " Contradiction and overdetermination . " Drawing from both Freud and Mao Zedong, Althusser used the idea of overdetermination as a way of thinking about the multiple, often opposed, forces active at once in any political situation, without falling into an overly simple idea of these forces being simply " contradictory . " Brewster, in Althusser et al .'s " Reading Capital " defines overdetermination as such:
