PhronesisWe apply the Displacement Framework to Limerence (Dorothy Tennov, 1979), formalizing it as W_limerent — a wrong attractor organized around reciprocity uncertainty, not around the limerent object itself. The relational ground state S⁰_relational is defined as the capacity for non-obsessive romantic interest: attraction that does not generate intrusive preoccupation or disproportionate distress around reciprocity.
W_limerent is characterized by intrusive thinking about the limerent object occupying 85%+ of waking thoughts, acute reciprocity sensitivity, euphoria on signs of interest, and devastation on signs of rejection. The critical formal property is the uncertainty maintenance loop: limerence requires reciprocity uncertainty — certainty of reciprocation transforms limerence into non-obsessive love; certainty of rejection should terminate limerence but instead activates relimerence through the rejection-induced uncertainty reactivation paradox (Baumeister).
Partial reciprocity signals ('glimmering') constitute a variable-ratio reinforcement schedule (Skinner), the most potent attractor-maintenance mechanism available. Nine formal propositions cover: S⁰_relational definition (P1), W_limerent architecture with uncertainty as organizing principle (P2), the uncertainty maintenance loop and glimmering (P3), the dissolution paradox — limerence does not respond to insight or willpower, with thought-suppression rebound amplifying intrusive thinking (P4), unrequited limerence as extended D(ξ_yearning) with Φ accumulation (P5), limerent transfer as the primary natural basin shift (P6), the limerence-erotomania spectrum as basin depth continuum (P7), attachment style as limerence susceptibility predictor (P8), and resolution pathways — no-contact as glimmering prevention, transfer, and schema-level therapy (P9).