‌‌‌‌　　英：factor c;法：facteur c

‌‌‌‌　　拉康在1950年的一届精神病学会议上创造了“c因素”这个术语。c因素是“任何特定文化环境的恒常性特征”(E,37):象征秩序中的一部分标记着某一文化相对于另一文化的那些独有特征，(因素正是对于象征秩序中的这一部分进行命名的尝试（c代表文化)。虽然思考这个概念在不同文化环境与精神分析之间的相互关系中的可能应用将会是非常有趣的，但是拉康仅仅举出了一个(因素的例子；他指出，非历史主义（ahistoricism)是美国文化的c因素(见：E,37与E,115)。“美国的生活方式”围绕着诸如“幸福”“适应”“人际关系”与“人类工程学”这样的能指转动(E,38)。拉康尤其把美国文化的c因素看作精神分析的对立面，并且认为它对让精神分析理论在美国受到困扰的那些错误（诸如：自我心理学[EGO-PSYCHOLOGY])负有主要责任。

‌‌‌‌　　(facteur c)Lacan coined the term'factor c'at a psychiatric congress in 1950.Factor c isthe constant characteristic of any given cultural milieu'(E,37): it is an attempt todesignate that part of the symbolic order which marks the particular features of oneculture as opposed to another(c stands for culture).Although it would be interesting tospeculate on the possible applications of this concept to the interrelationship betweendifferent cultural milieux and psychoanalysis,Lacan only gives one example of the cfactor,ahistoricism,he argues,is the c factor of the culture of the United States (see E,37and E,115).The 'American way of life'revolves around such signifiers as 'happiness','adaptation','human relations'and 'human engineering'(E,38).Lacan regards the cfactor of United States culture as particularly antithetical to psychoanalysis,and sees it aslargely responsible for the errors which have beset psychoanalytic theory in the USA(such as EGO-PSYCHOLOGY).