> Rauno Huttunen wrote: > > Althusser didn't like Hegel(he > did like Durkheim and Saussure) so he constructed the concept of > overdetermination which has nothing to do with causal laws. I don't know what Hegel has to do with causal laws, either, but in any case, it was Freud who produced the concept of over-determination (Überdeterminierung), which Althusser likely came upon by way of Lacan. -Kevin