The article discusses the discoursive historicity of the psychiatric and psychoanalytic disciplines from two standpoints: the first, refers to the history of psychiatric and psychoanalytic discours; the second, refers to the "present" of psychiatric and psychoanalytic kwnowledge, in its relation to the problem analyzed before. The place of "borderlines" is analyzed specifically, considered as an expresion of both a disciplinary constancy and contemporary subjectivity in its social-cultural dimension.Se discute el problema de la historicidad de la clínica psicoanalítica, a la luz de su relación con el saber psiquiátrico y con las exigencias de su ubicación en la cultura. Tomando como referencia un análisis histórico-conceptual, se revisa la ...