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CERFI – Analysis Everywhere. Militancy, Research, Architecture and Psychiatry

CERFI – Analysis Everywhere. Militancy, Research, Architecture and Psychiatry Susana Caló and Godofredo Enes Pereira 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 s

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