CERFI – ANALYSIS EVERYWHERE book launch with Susana Caló & Godofredo Enes Pereira

We welcome Susana Caló & Godofredo Enes Pereira to discuss the history and practices of French institutional analysis and psychotherapy - from and beyond the clinic - by the research cooperative CERFI. Susana Caló and Godofredo Enes Pereira invite 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.

The authors will be joined by Janna Graham and Paola Debellis Alvarez

CERFI - the Centre for Institutional Study, Research, and Training - wasn't your typical think tank. Co-founded by Felix 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.

About the authors:
Godofredo Enes Pereira is an architect, teacher and researcher. His work explores architecture’s role in the composition of existential territories, with a focus on collective equipment and landback struggles. He is the project lead of Visualising Relations to Land (AHRC Curiosity Award), and the director of the territorial research group (GIT), an organisation that provides support to communities resisting land dispossession.

Susana Caló is a researcher and writer. Her work focuses on reconstructing potential histories of radical psy practices, considering their relationship to wider social, political and urban struggles. She is a founding member of Chaosmosemedia, focusing on the work of the psychoanalyst and activist Félix Guattari and collaborates with the FREEPSY collective, acting as a consultant and network organiser contributing to the development of a Free Clinics Network.Minor Compositions:
Minor Compositions has always moved along lines that are less infrastructural than insurgent: less a publisher than a set of practices, a circulation of ideas, forms of study that refuses to settle. Now, more than ever, these books belong where they can circulate freely. What matters is that study continues. https://www.minorcompositions.info/
Paola Debellis Alvarez is a deserting mental health worker, researcher and film programmer, problematising institutionalisation in care and projecting alternatives through public programming for social justice.

Janna Graham is a researcher, organizer and educator who has developed radical pedagogy projects between the arts, communities and higher education for many years. Her work examines the aural, visual and micropolitical dimensions of urban dispossession and resistance, and studies how legacies of colonial administration underpin neoliberal subjectivities, institutions and modes of publicity.