Puberty as Ontogenetic Ground State Transition: Hormonal Displacement, Adolescent Attractor Instability, and the New S0

We apply the Displacement Framework to puberty, modeling it as a programmed ontogenetic ground state transition from S0_child to S0_adult. The HPG axis (GnRH, LH/FSH, sex steroids) is formalized as the ontogenetic forcing function. The pubertal instability window — when both attractor basins are shallow — is identified as the period of maximum wrong-attractor vulnerability: eating disorders, depression, substance use, early sexual exploitation, and identity rigidity all concentrate here.

Adolescent risk-taking is reframed as necessary new-S0 calibration. Precocious and delayed puberty are analyzed as boundary-condition failures at the transition.