Chronic Resentment as Injustice-Archive Wrong Attractor: The Grievance Accumulation Loop, the Cost of Not Forgiving, and the Return to Released Claim

This paper applies the Displacement Framework to chronic resentment, analysing it as a wrong-attractor state in which an archived injustice is repeatedly re-experienced through re-sentire (re-feeling), keeping the original displacement cost active. Using displacement cost D(ξ), accumulated displacement Φ, and basin geometry, we formalise the grievance accumulation loop and show how each re-experiencing reinforces the archive and raises the cost of releasing the claim.

Nine propositions characterise the accumulation mechanism, the re-sentire loop, physiological costs, victimhood identity lock-in, and return paths through forgiveness as claim-release (Enright and Worthington models). Published as part of The Phronesis Issues preprint series.