ABSTRACT
In Studies on Hysteria, S. Freud recounts that he worked as a psychoanalyst on top of a mountain. There he was sought out as a “doctor” by a young woman who presented herself as having bad “nerves”. The problem, for psychoanalysis, and not just in reference to the psychoses, might be what some Argentinian psychoanalysts get excited about calling the “Clinic of Borders”. Borders of neurosis where, amongst other things, there would be no possibility of establishing a soothing transference according to the manual, although the question is not formulated according to the knowledge about the signifier that causes the symptom in someone who supposedly incarnates it. There is no transference. Nonetheless, also when there is transference, all of analytic practice is always a practice of borders: those that present themselves in the association called free, and those that constitute themselves cutting sense in the enunciation of the analysand as effect of the intervention of the analyst.
