PhronesisWe apply the Displacement Framework to Erotomania (De Clérambault's Syndrome), formalizing it as W_erotomanic — a delusional wrong attractor in which D(ξ_rejection) is structurally prevented from registering. The erotomanic individual holds the fixed false belief that a high-status other is in love with them; crucially, all evidence of rejection is cognitively reprocessed as coded love signals, tests, or obstacles, making W_erotomanic self-sealing against disconfirmation.
The ground state S⁰_relational is defined as accurate reciprocity assessment: the capacity to correctly read others' romantic interest or disinterest and calibrate behavior accordingly. W_erotomanic is maintained by three interlocking mechanisms: the fabricated reciprocity core belief, the rejection-reinterpretation loop, and the stalking behavioral cycle that generates confirmatory 'contact' evidence.
Nine formal propositions cover: S⁰_relational definition (P1), W_erotomanic self-sealing architecture (P2), the stalking cycle as wrong attractor maintenance behavior (P3), the persecution pivot — when the delusion cannot be sustained against overwhelming evidence, the loved object converts to persecutor in a landscape shift from idealization to paranoia (P4), cumulative Φ_erotomanic and risk escalation (P5), gender and forensic epidemiology with male forensic overrepresentation despite female clinical majority (P6), comorbidity with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (P7), antipsychotic treatment as the primary landscape-modification tool (P8), and the legal intersection — stalking legislation, restraining orders, and the paradox that legal contact bans can accelerate the persecution pivot (P9).