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[[Lacan]] coined the term "[[factor c]]" at a [[psychiatric ]] congress in 1950.

[[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]]).

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 [[signifier]]s as "[[happiness]]," "adaptation," "[[human ]] relations" and "human engineering."<ref>{{E}} p.38</ref>

[[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]]).