This article intends to analyze the relation between the process of civilization and the existence of an authority representative, who under the psychoanalytic point of view is qualified by the construct “third party”, in view of the need for constricting aspects of human conduct for a social life. Thus develops the hypothesis of a possible displacement of this “third party”, the one that introduces the symbolic and represents the Law, over the centuries. For such an understanding will be explained some ideas about the matter during the course of humanity, considering concepts anthropological, sociological and psychoanalytic.
Civilization; Third-Party; Order