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==Culture==[[Factor c]] is "the constant characteristic of any given cultural milieu"<ref>{{E}} p.37</ref>: it is an attempt to designate that part of the [[symbolic order]] which marks the particular features of one [[culture ]] as opposed to another ('''c ''' stands for [[culture]]).

=="American Way of Life"==Although it would be interesting to speculate on the possible applications of this concept to the interrelationship between different cultural milieux and [[psychoanalysis]], [[Lacan]] only gives one example of the [[c factor]]; ahistoricism, he argues, is the [[factor c |''c'' factor]] of the [[culture ]] of the United States.<ref>{{E}} p.37, 115</ref>

The "American way of life" revolves around such signifiers [[signifier]]s as "happiness," "adaptation," "human relations" and "human engineering."<ref>{{E}} p.38</ref>

==Psychoanalysis==[[Lacan]] regards the [[factor c |''c'' factor]] of United States culture as particularly antithetical to [[psychoanalysis]], and sees it as largely responsible for the errors which have beset [[psychoanalytic theory ]] in the USA (such as [[ego-psychology]]).