[Minorcompositions] CERFI – Analysis Everywhere. Militancy, Research, Architecture and Psychiatry

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*CERFI – Analysis Everywhere. Militancy, Research, Architecture and 
Psychiatry <https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1661>*
Susana Caló and Godofredo Enes Pereira

/Recovers a forgotten history of putting Schizoanalysis to work outside 
of the clinic./


Between the radical energies of the 1960s and the shifting terrains of 
the 1980s, a group in France quietly detonated the boundaries of 
politics, psychiatry, and collective life. CERFI – the Centre for 
Institutional Study, Research, and Training – wasn’t your typical think 
tank. Co-founded by Félix Guattari, it set out to bring the disruptive 
insights of institutional psychotherapy into the heart of militant and 
professional organizing. Their wager? That every collective needs a form 
of /analytic militancy/: a way to navigate the unconscious forces that 
shape power, desire, and resistance from within.

This was the birth of schizoanalysis outside of the clinical setting: a 
practice that shifts focus from the individual psyche to the collective 
assemblages that compose our lives. What are the deeper machinic drives 
shaping our actions? What forms of desire power our institutions? 
CERFI’s work took these questions seriously, designing communal 
infrastructures, building popular research teams, and launching 
/Recherches/, a journal that amplified voices from revolutionary 
struggles, childcare centres, classrooms, psychiatric wards, and beyond. 
Analysis Everywhere dives into the rich archive of CERFI’s radical 
experiments: conceptual, editorial, and lived. It invites us to imagine 
a practice where the unconscious isn’t repressed but mobilized. Where 
analysis isn’t an afterthought but a vital tool for political 
transformation.

“‘Only Desire Can Read Desire,’ wrote Félix Guattari, and this quote, 
which Caló and Pereira use as the title of their introduction, expresses 
the precious specificity of this book. Caló and Pereira’s desire to 
revive the passionate adventure of CERFI testifies to the fact that this 
adventure has become contemporary again, something like a resurgence, 
the reappearance of what had been eradicated and which is returning, 
transformed but alive.” – Isabelle Stengers

“Very important work has been done by Susana Caló and Godofredo Pereira 
on the historical and visual reconstruction of a cultural experiment 
whose practical and theoretical effects have not yet been fully 
evaluated. – Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi

*Bios:* Susana Caló is an independent researcher and lecturer at the 
Open University. Her research focuses on neglected radical histories of 
psychiatry, exploring their intersections with wider social, political 
and urban struggles, as well concepts’ social and political lives.

Godofredo Enes Pereira is an architect, theorist and environmental 
activist. He is a senior researcher at the Royal College of Art. His 
work investigates architecture’s role in the composition of existential 
territories.

PDF available freely online: https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1661

Available direct from Minor Compositions site. Release to the book trade 
1 May 2026

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