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Can we experience limerence with new projects? The project at hand becomes your whole new world.

I wonder if the reticular activating system has anything to do with it.

As I remember from the director's commentary track on some Almodovar film: Love isn't love unless there is reciprocity. (This was when some male character is stalkily going through the things in a woman's abode)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reticular_activating_system



"Limerence" specifically refers to infatuation with a person. "Cathexis" is a broader term which also applies to objects or ideas.




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