Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 23:36:04 -0800
Subject: Re: Postmodernism: Materialist?
From: Kevin Hirsch <hirschk-AT-anet.net>




> 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