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One might take the fact that Roe relied on multiple constitutional provisions as proof of its overdetermination.

Maxwell spent more than a year undergoing psychoanalysis with Theodore Reik, and while his fictions are hardly Freudian case studies, they are nonetheless profoundly analytical, propelled by a spirit of inquiry more than by the mechanics of plot, and animated by a belief in overdetermination.

Criminologists face a problem that’s common in many fields: overdetermination.

The movie’s narrowly dramatic technique, with its curtly informational scenes, is matched by the emotional overdetermination of the images.

“Basically, I wanted to be awkward. I could take advantage of fiction’s built-in tolerance of overdetermination, in which multiple possible causes for an outcome can be allowed to exist alongside each other without being resolved, or even given definitive weights.”