Abstract
This article focuses on bordering as a fundamental semiotic process of human psychological functioning. First, we discuss similarities between semiosis and bordering and explore their relationships. In the perspective of cultural psychology of semiotic dynamics, psychic life is a process of purposeful production and interpretation of signs, carried out through cycles of culturally guided, selective internalization and externalization. Signs and borders are not only entities “out there”: they emerge in the purposeful movement of the organism in the course of future-oriented action in everyday life. Second, we discuss borders in mind and society as particular types of signs, through which humans regulate their own and others’ conduct. Finally, we propose a general genetic law of bordering development: borders are first conceived as tools created and established by humans as interpsychic activities. Later, the sign is internalized and begins to regulate psychological functioning. It also becomes a psychological tool for dealing with other humans and with the environment.
Highlights
This article focuses on bordering as a fundamental semiotic process of human psychological functioning
This view leads directly to the theoretical question that we are going to develop: what is the role of bordering as a semiotic process in human meaning-making?
The relationship of temporality we have found in semiosis and bordering implies that meaning-making takes place on the edge of the constant move from a present moment to the immediate one
Summary
On the orders of their uncle, they were cast into the river Tiber. The children survived the river and were found by a she-wolf, Lupercal, who suckled them in her cave. The grown-up twins got revenge on their uncle. They decided to found a new town in the hills where the city of Rome would later lie. Having interpreted the auguries in his favour, Romulus started digging a trench with a plough around what was to be his new city (Figure 1). Remus, who had another interpretation of the auguries and believed himself to be entitled to found the town, jumped over the trench to challenge his brother, who killed him in the fight
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