Having various different causes and sources, possibly resulting in a state of ambiguity or conflicting meaning related to the coming together of contradictory elements.

with regard to psychoanalytic theory, the idea postulating that many unconscious facets might mix to generate one symptom, dream, dysfunction, or facet of behavior. Since motivators and defenses funct [..]

A term used in Marxian theory which denotes that social structures and behaviour have more than one determining factor and cannot therefore be reduced to economic factors alone. Contrast with economic [..]

One can think of over-determination as a specific case of complex or mul¬tiple determination, that is, as situations and occurrences where there is no one simple cause in the form of A causes B. Inste [..]