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factor c ( facteur c) Lacan coined the term 'factor c' (''facteur c'') at a psychiatriccongress in 1950.

congress in 1950. Factor c is 'the constant characteristic of any given culturalmilieu'<ref>E, 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).

milieu' 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 c factor of the culture of the United States.<ref> (see E, 37and E, l15): it is an attempt to designate that part of the symbolic order</ref>

which marks the particular features The 'American way of one culture life' revolves around such signifiers as opposed to another (c'happiness', 'adaptation', 'human relations' and 'human engineering.'<ref>E, 38</ref>

stands Lacan regards the c factor of United States culture as particularly antithetical to psychoanalysis, and sees it as largely responsible for culturethe errors which have beset psychoanalytic theory in the USA (such as [[ego-psychology]]). Although it would be interesting to speculate on the

factor; ahistoricism, he argues, is the c factor of the culture of the United States[[Category:Terms]][[Category:Concepts]] (see E, 37 and E, l15). The 'American way of life' revolves around such[[Category:Psychoanalysis]][[Category:Symbolic]] signifiers as 'happiness', 'adaptation', 'human relations' and 'human engineer-  ing' (E, 38). [[Category:Jacques 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).]]