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==Jacques Lacan==[[Lacan]] coined the term "[[factor c]]" at a [[psychiatric]] congress in 1950. Factor c is 'the constant characteristic of any given cultural
==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]]).
which marks =="American Way of Life"==Although it would be interesting to speculate on the particular features 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 as opposed to another (c]] of the [[United States]].<ref>{{E}} p.37, 115</ref>
stands for culture)The "American way of [[life]]" revolves around such [[signifier]]s as "[[happiness]]," "adaptation," "[[human]] relations" and "human engineering. Although it would be interesting to speculate on the"<ref>{{E}} p.38</ref>
possible applications ==Psychoanalysis==[[Lacan]] regards the [[factor c|''c'' factor]] of this concept United States culture as particularly antithetical to [[psychoanalysis]], and sees it as largely [[responsible]] for the errors which have beset [[psychoanalytic theory]] in the interrelationship between differentUSA (such as [[ego-psychology]]).
cultural milieux and psychoanalysis, Lacan only gives one example of the c==See Also=={{See}}* [[Adaptation]]* [[Ego-psychology]]||* [[Psychoanalysis]]* [[Symbolic]]{{Also}}
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signifiers as 'happiness', 'adaptation', 'human relations' and 'human engineer- ing' (E, 38). Lacan regards the 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).__NOTOC__
