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.

本文着重介绍作为人类心理功能的基本符号学过程的边界化。首先，我们讨论符号和边界之间的相似性，并探讨它们之间的关系。从符号学动力学的文化心理学角度来看，心理生活是有目的地产生和解释符号的过程，是通过文化指导，选择性内在化和外在化的循环而进行的。标志和边界不仅是“外面”的实体：它们在日常生活中面向未来的行动过程中出现在有机体的有目的地运动中。其次，我们将思想和社会的边界讨论为特定的标志类型，人类通过这些边界来调节自己和他人的行为。最后，我们提出了边界发展的一般遗传定律：边界首先被认为是人类创造并建立的一种作为心理间活动的工具。后来，体征被内化并开始调节心理功能。它也成为与他人和环境打交道的心理工具。