The interpretations of Crowds and Power can be seen as falling into four groups: applied or immanently poetic interpretations; socially applied political reception; productive and aesthetic (genetic) and structural and functional analyses. An important role in Canetti’s work is played by his transformation myth. The connection between transformation, figure and mask is important for both Canetti’s ontological and theatrical theory. Canetti distances himself from historicism and historicity. His unique thinking process aims at a complete encompassing of the problems in the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach. In Crowds and Power Canetti abandons the comprehensive historicity of universal history in order to find the forces which govern history and to seek answers to universal human questions. Canetti expects and insists upon transformation to be used as a cognitive modus of the historical and political processes. Yet, we must not forget that, according to him, only a part of knowledge can be attained through the mask of transformation. The remaining, equally important part of the knowledge is being attained «outside» and «on the side», and independent of either side in the comparative observation of Unmasking. Canetti views nationalisms and religions as a problem of crowd psychology. He stands at the beginning of the cultural reversal which through the dimension of auto-reflexivity and the new definition of the ratio between subject and object in knowledge constructs the connection between analysis of society and of culture. In opposition to all crowd theories, positioning the crowd in opposition to the individual, Canetti sees the understanding of the crowd WITHIN the individual as of primary importance, that is to say, the understanding of his instinct for the crowd. Around this proximity between the concept of crowds in the natural sciences and in the humanitarian understanding of the concept of the crowd and the attendant concept of power, the whole of Canetti’s anthropological, cognitive and aesthetic theory of transformation (Verwandlung) and the opposite process of unmasking (Entwandlung) has been constructed.