IN-HOUSE – Analysis Everywhere, with Susana Caló and Godofredo Enes Pereira
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The Centre for Institutional Studies, Research, and Training (CERFI) was a research cooperative cofounded by Félix Guattari. At the intersection of Marx and Freud, its members set out to place analysis at the centre of militant practices.
A constellation of sociologists, philosophers, architects, artists and psychoanalysts, they took analysis everywhere – from hospitals and neighbourhoods to schools, organising and film practice - using whatever means they could invent.
Published by Minor Compositions, CERFI: Analysis Everywhere recovers this legacy and invites us to think about analysis –everywhere and by other means – as a vital tool for political transformation.
On the Evening:
The evening will be an invitation to think with the idea of analysis everywhere and by other means.
In the first part, introduced by Raluca Soreanu, we will hear from authors Susana Caló and Godofredo Enes Pereira and CERFI founding member Anne Querrien.
The second part will be introduced and moderated by psychoanalyst Ana Minozzo, and it will bring together philosopher Rodrigo Nunes, Parapraxis editor Hannah Zeavin, psychodynamic psychotherapist Lizaveta van Munsteren, writer and curator Perwana Nazif and architect and educator Adrian Lahoud. Minor Compositions’ editor Stevphen Shukaikis will also be present at the event.
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About the book:
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 centers, 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
About 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. You can download them, share them, teach with them, argue against them, write through them. What matters is that they continue to move. What matters is that study continues. https://www.minorcompositions.info/
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Speakers:
Adrian Lahoud is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at School of Architecture Royal College of Art. His practice focuses on intercultural and intergenerational approaches to architecture that draw on diverse artistic and scientific traditions. In 2019 he curated the inaugural Sharjah Architecture Triennial, the first international platform for architecture and urbanism in the Global South. Prior to his current role, Adrian served as Dean of the School of Architecture and Head of Architecture at the College. His work has been translated into Arabic, French, Mandarin and Spanish and featured in the Economist, The Guardian, Art Review, Domus, and Dezeen, among others.
Ana Minozzo is a clinician and researcher based in London, UK. She holds a PhD and an MA in Psychosocial Studies from Birkbeck, University of London and is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in Psychosocial Studies within FREEPSY, at the University of Essex (2023-2027). She has experience with a number of community-based mental health services, working with migrants, refugees, the LGBTQI+ community and was a part of the Psychosis Therapy Project, in London. Her research cross the fields of medical humanities, feminism and psychosocial studies, with a special interest in ecofeminism and medical anthropology and has been featured in several edited books and journals internationally. Ana is a full member of The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and a registered UKCP psychotherapist. Her book ‘Anxiety as Vibration: a Psychosocial Cartography’ was published by Palgrave in 2024.
Anne Querrien is a sociologist and urban theorist. She was a founding member and general secretary of CERFI. She co-founded, edited and contributed to the journals Recherches, Chimères, Les Annales de la recherche urbaine and Multitudes. She is the author of significant research on mutual schooling, including L'École mutuelle: une pédagogie trop efficace? (1976, 2005).
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. Between 2017-26 he was the Head of Programme for the MA Environmental Architecture at the Royal College of Art. He is the author of Savage Objects (INCM, 2012) and CERFI: Analysis Everywhere (Minor Compositions, 2026) with Susana Caló. Together with Dubravka Sekulić he is the editor of Take Back the Land: the Role of Architecture in Land Struggles and Liberation (forthcoming Bloomsbury, 2027). 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.
Hannah Zeavin is Assistant Professor of the History of Science in the Department of History and the Berkeley Center for New Media at UC Berkeley. She is the author of The Distance Cure (MIT Press), Mother Media: Hot and Cool Parenting in the Twentieth Century, (MIT Press) and Founding Editor of Parapraxis. In 2021, she cofounded The Psychosocial Foundation.
Lizaveta van Munsteren is a psychodynamic psychotherapist (BPC) and academic with a research focus in psychoanalytic theory and history. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher with the FREEPSY project at the University of Essex, UK, working on theoretical formulations of the psychoanalytic frame in free clinics, and archives of free clinics in Vienna and Budapest. She is a lecturer in psychotherapy at King’s College London, and teaches Freud at the Bowlby Centre. Her book The Vicissitudes of Psychoanalysis in Soviet Russia, 1930-1980 was published with Routledge and Open Access in 2025.
Perwana Nazif is the Art Director of the Los Angeles Review of Books and a contributing editor at Parapraxis. She recently edited Institutional Psychotherapy as a Resistance Movement by François Pain (Semiotext(e), 2025) and is visiting faculty at California Institute of the Arts. She is currently working on an exhibition at CAC Brétigny in Spring 2027.
Raluca Soreanu is a psychoanalytic and psychosocial thinker and writer. She is Professor of Psychoanalytic Studies in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, UK, and a psychoanalyst, member of the Círculo Psicanalítico do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and of the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, UK. She is the author of Working-through Collective Wounds: Trauma, Denial, Recognition in the Brazilian Uprising (Palgrave, 2018) and the co-author, with Jenny Willner and Jakob Staberg, of Ferenczi Dialogues: On Trauma and Catastrophe (Leuven University Press, 2023). She is the project lead of the interdisciplinary research project FREEPSY: Free Clinics and a Psychoanalysis for the People: Progressive Histories, Collective Practices, Implications for Our Times (UKRI Frontier Research Grant); Academic Associate of The Freud Museum London; and Editor of the Studies in the Psychosocial series at Palgrave and of the Important Little Books in Psychoanalysis Series at 1968 Press. Her latest book is The Psychic Life of Fragments: On Splitting and the Experience of Time in Psychoanalysis.
Rodrigo Nunes is the author of Organisation of the Organisationless: Collective Action After Networks (Mute/PML Books, 2014), of Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal. A Theory of Political Organisation (Verso, 2021) and of numerous articles in publications such as Les Temps Modernes, Radical Philosophy, South Atlantic Quarterly, Jacobin, Al Jazeera and The Guardian. As an organizer and popular educator, he has been involved in several initiatives in Brazil and in Europe, including the first editions of the World Social Forum.
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 with the aim to develop a critical theory of psychological practices and contemporary psychopolitics. Her most recent publication CERFI: Analysis Everywhere (Minor Compositions) is the result of ten years of collective research into the history and practices of French institutional analysis and psychotherapy, examining their conceptual and socio-political dimensions. She was a co-investigator in The Pragmatic Genealogy of Concepts (BA, King’s College London), examining the political life of concepts in post-war French thought. She is a founding member of Chaosmosemedia, a rhizomatic project that has organised several international events focusing on the work of the psychoanalyst and activist Félix Guattari. She lectures at the Open University and collaborates with the FREEPSY collective, acting as a consultant and network organiser contributing to the development of a Free Clinics Network.
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