PhronesisVictim identity — the organization of self-concept primarily around one's experience of victimization, such that grievance becomes self-sustaining regardless of ongoing harm — is here formally reconceptualized as a wrong attractor W_VI in the landscape of witnessed dignity. The healthy ground state S^0 is defined as witnessed dignity: the capacity to acknowledge genuine harm, receive appropriate recognition, and re-engage with forward agency without victim status becoming the primary self-organizing principle.
W_VI is explicitly distinguished from legitimate victimhood, trauma responses (PTSD, C-PTSD), and structural oppression — it characterizes the structural dynamics of identity organization rather than the severity of harm experienced. Nine formal propositions characterize inadequate witnessing as a W_VI consolidation driver, grievance rumination as self-amplifying accumulated displacement, narrative capture as stable attractor, secondary gain basin deepening, the tripartite agency foreclosure mechanism, the structural rather than severity-defined nature of W_VI, and return paths through witnessed dignity, narrative expansion, agency reactivation, and community transition.