A Systemic Analysis of Violent Action
16 December 2025

A Systemic Analysis of Violent Action

Cosmo Education

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In this Cosmo Education episode, drawing on the work of Gaetano De Leo and Dino Mazzei, violence is approached not as an isolated event or a structureless outburst, but as an action organized in systemic form. The analysis focuses on redundancies in action, on the construction of action boundaries, and on the way aims, cognitions, and social meanings intertwine within the scene and across broader contexts. The clinical case discussed illustrates how violent action can become centralized around communicative paradoxes, and how family history, groups of belonging, and systems of social control contribute to stabilizing or rigidifying the relational codes that sustain the enactment.