PhronesisWorkaholism—compulsive overwork driven by internal compulsion rather than external necessity—is here formally reconceptualized as a wrong attractor W_ach in the landscape of integrated living. The healthy ground state S^0_integrated is defined as purposeful engagement with work balanced by genuine rest, relational presence, and identity grounded in being rather than achievement.
W_ach arises when achievement becomes the primary identity-maintenance mechanism: rest triggers threat responses, stopping feels like falling, and productivity becomes both the symptom and the only available relief. Nine formal propositions characterize the displacement cost structure, the rest-as-threat architecture, the social reinforcement dynamics of productivity culture, and the conditions for return to integrated living.
The framework traces workaholism's roots in Protestant work ethic, late-capitalist identity formation, and the neurobiology of achievement reward circuits.