{"id":1661,"date":"2026-01-17T17:29:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T17:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/?p=1661"},"modified":"2026-04-05T16:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T16:55:09","slug":"cerfi-analysis-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/?p=1661","title":{"rendered":"CERFI \u2013 Analysis Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/sdk\/js?client-id=BAAZVqDzpOe4wiR8CaLD_oJEvsW8k_r43j2m8f0nPZpK9MqpD3c_nCgZ1_fgqtEOiF3kkO3be21V5NnwRU&#038;components=hosted-buttons&#038;disable-funding=venmo&#038;currency=GBP\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>CERFI \u2013 Analysis Everywhere. Militancy, Research, Architecture and Psychiatry<\/strong><br \/>\nSusana\u00a0Cal\u00f3\u00a0and Godofredo Enes Pereira<\/p>\n<p>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 \u2013 the Centre for Institutional Study, Research, and Training \u2013 wasn\u2019t your typical think tank. Co-founded by F\u00e9lix 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.<\/p>\n<p>This was the birth of schizoanalysis outside of the clinical setting: a practice that shifts focus from the individual psyche\u2028to the collective assemblages that compose our lives. What are the deeper machinic drives shaping our actions? What forms of desire power our institutions? CERFI\u2019s 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\u2019s radical experiments: conceptual, editorial, and lived. It invites us to imagine a practice where the unconscious isn\u2019t repressed but mobilized. Where analysis isn\u2019t an afterthought but a vital tool for political transformation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Only Desire Can Read Desire,\u2019 wrote F\u00e9lix Guattari, and this quote, which Cal\u00f3 and Pereira use as the title of their introduction, expresses the precious specificity of this book. Cal\u00f3 and Pereira\u2019s 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.\u201d \u2013 Isabelle Stengers<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVery important work has been done by Susana Cal\u00f3 and Godofredo Pereira on the historical and visual reconstruction of a cultural experiment whose practical and theoretical effects have not yet been fully evaluated. \u2013 Franco \u2018Bifo\u2019 Berardi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bios:<\/strong> Susana Cal\u00f3 is an independent researcher and lecturer at the Open University.\u00a0Her research focuses on neglected radical histories of psychiatry, exploring their intersections with wider social, political and urban struggles, as well concepts\u2019 social and political lives.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s role in the composition of existential territories.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Ordering Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Available direct from Minor Compositions for the special price of \u00a315 + shipping.<\/p>\n<p>Please note that, yes, we understand the price of international shipping is high and are arranging for copies to get to distributors as quickly as possible. Copies should arrive in the US in about a month.<\/p>\n<div id=\"paypal-container-AT97RGW9F5KNN\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  paypal.HostedButtons({\n    hostedButtonId: \"AT97RGW9F5KNN\",\n  }).render(\"#paypal-container-AT97RGW9F5KNN\")\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>A digital version can freely be downloaded here: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/analysis-everywhere\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CERFI \u2013 Analysis Everywhere<\/a><\/p>\n<p>488 pages, 6 x 9, paperback<br \/>\nUK: \u00a325 \/ US: $33<br \/>\nIBSN 978-1-57027-398-8<\/p>\n<p>Release to the book trade 1 May 2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>REVIEWS<br \/>\n<\/strong>\u201cI have hoped for a long time that someone would dig into this side of Guattari\u2019s work. I highly recommend this book.\u201d \u2013 Ian Buchanan, founder of <em>Deleuze and Guattari Studies Journal<\/em>, author of <em>The Incomplete Project of Schizoanalysis<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe visionary experiment of CERFI once crossed French politics breaking up the borders of psychoanalysis, architecture, and militancy. It revived the lesson of institutional psychotherapy that the hospital is ill, not the patient. Against the apathy of the Left, it envisioned institutions of research, care, and collective planning. This book extends its legacy and political imagination to the present, to a time in which the rise of authoritarianism demands new strategies of organisation and intervention.\u201d \u2013 Matteo Pasquinelli<strong>, <\/strong>author of <em>The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis careful and thorough work revisits the radical experiments of institutional psychotherapy to ask a question that remains urgent today: what makes analysis possible? Drawing on the legacy of CERFI, the book illuminates a unique convergence of clinical innovation and institutional reinvention and reflects on the conditions for analytical militancy. Rather than simply cohering the history of CERFI, the book explores how collective forms of care and thought can sustain multiplicity, resist unification, and open new spaces for subjectivity. Through this lens, the psychiatric institution becomes not a place of containment but a dynamic field, an infrastructure for desire and transformation, captured in the book\u2019s notion of <em>analysis everywhere<\/em>. At once historical and theoretical, this book offers a critical vocabulary for rethinking psychoanalysis, politics, and organisation today. It challenges us to confront the ongoing anxiety of difference that shapes both clinical and social life. A vital contribution to contemporary psychoanalytic thought, this is a book that insists \u2013 against all odds \u2013 on the enduring power of collective desire.\u201d \u2013 Lizaveta van Munsteren<strong>, <\/strong>author of <em>The Vicissitudes of Psychoanalysis in Soviet Russia, 1930-1980<strong>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCERFI was a vital and radical experiment in research, psychiatry and architecture. Expanding beyond the confines of the university, the clinic or the profession and open to all irrespective of rank, title or qualification, CERFI set into motion a series of concepts and processes that are needed now more than ever. The urban projects, care facilities, clubs, films, and writings &#8211; many collected here or translated for the first time, were neither idealised nor utopian but something altogether more powerful &#8211; they were concrete interventions in the social field animated by the necessity of keeping fascism at bay. The virulent return of normopathic subjectivities is a sign that fascism is ascendent again, now amplified by powerful technologies of semiotic entrainment. In this context, reactivating CERFI\u2019s commitment to make the libidinal workable in the context of organising, building, and liberating could not be more important and urgent.\u201d\u00a0\u2013 Adrian Lahoud<strong>, <\/strong>author of <em>The Rights of Future Generations<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA red thread connects the political thought of Deleuze and Guattari back to the analytic practice developed at institutions like the La Borde clinic: the idea that militant practice must always involve an analysis of desire, of the unconscious libidinal relations that traverse both militants and the reality on which they seek to intervene. If one group tried to live out this principle and explore its implications, it was CERFI. To recover its history and work is therefore not only to shed light on one of the 1960s and 1970s most interesting experiments, but to relaunch this proposition into our own time and practices.\u201d\u00a0\u2013 Rodrigo Nunes<strong>, <\/strong>author of <em>Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organisation<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe transformative history of 20th-century psychiatry is a collective history. However, the ways in which history is often written struggle to give voice to the collective, favouring the work of great men. In this extraordinary book, Susana Cal\u00f3 and Godofredo Pereira explore a collective form for the collective history of CERFI, where a profusion of voices, images and archives also document life.\u201d \u2013 Joana Mas\u00f3, author of <em>Tosquelles: Healing Institutions.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CERFI \u2013 Analysis Everywhere. 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