How to depend on maven artifact instead of module?

I've found discussions of people having the opposite problem to mine -- that is, they want to depend on the output from a module in the same project instead of the maven artifact -- but I would like to be able to depend on the artifact even when the module is in the same project.   The code I'm writing is doing pattern-matching on the classpath, but since maven sees the artifact and intellij sees a target dir, I'm having difficulty getting the same code to work in both contexts.

Is there any way I can tell intellij not to use the module output dir when I've defined a dependency in maven that happens to reside in the same (multi-module) project?  I only want that behavior for this specific module -- other modules should still depend on each other via target dirs so that the normal expected behavior is maintained elsewhere in the project.

Thanks!