This paper seeks to develop and contrast the ways of understanding the social domination topologies and configuration of subjectivities by Norbert Elias and Michel Foucault. To do this, we'll present first the proposal of Elias based on the civilizing process, in which his conceptualizations of sustained social interdependence in sociogenesis and psychogenesis affect individuals from the top of the social pyramid and from within the subject itself, setting out a "up-in" topological scheme of power. Then, Foucault's idea of device will be addressed, seeking to outline some general points about his theory of power, in which his gaze based on microphysics and not centered on subjectivity, will set a "bottom-out" topological scheme of domination, very different from Elias. Finally, the paper will close with some conclusions that will allow us to point out the differences and convergences of the analyzed authors.
