Martyrdom Complex as Self-Sacrifice Wrong Attractor: A Displacement Framework Analysis

This paper applies the Displacement Framework to the martyrdom complex, examining it as a wrong-attractor state in which self-sacrifice becomes the primary identity-maintaining behaviour. Using displacement cost D(ξ), accumulated displacement Φ, and attractor basin geometry, we show how suffering accumulates as social-moral currency, deepening the basin: the subject's cost of exiting martyrdom increases with each sacrifice as identity, relational bonds, and social capital become structured around the suffering role.

Nine formal propositions characterise sacrifice-identity fusion, grievance accumulation as basin-deepening, coercive relational dynamics, and return paths through need-recognition and identity reconstruction. Published as part of The Phronesis Issues preprint series.