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In this article, the authors examine the renewed appeal of socianalysis, a method of institutional analysis based on field intervention that emerged in the 1960s. We conducted a survey of about thirty new practitioners, in an attempt to understand their situation-specific practical reasoning, and to define the social needs to which they respond. Based on a case study, the investigation brought to light four ways of revisiting the institution, in the new context of a challenging of norms: a return to the institution as a dialectic concept, in opposition to the institution as an establishment; a fresh, less ideological look at institutionalization; a change in their support practices in interventions; an implication in the socianalytic intervention to break themselves (and their clients) free from ideological, organizational, and libidinal influences, in order to recover the energies driving social transformations.