Limerence may be defined as a psychological state of infatuation directed toward a particular object of attention and affection. It is, fundamentally, a mental state—one in which the logical faculty of reasoning and the exercise of common sense are either diminished or altogether suspended in the formation of conclusions and judgments.

Within this condition, emotion attains an excessive intensity. For Black Scholar, reason and emotion are not adversaries, but distinct faces of the same coin; yet when one eclipses the other, distortion ensues. In the limerent state, the individual becomes profoundly subjective, making decisions according to emotional impulse and affective fluctuation rather than through rational deliberation grounded in objective facts.

Consequently, fantasy displaces fact. The limerent individual is not merely mistaken; he is satisfied. He derives enjoyment from his choices and actions—whatever their nature—because the fantasy he inhabits functions, for him, as a sufficient and self-justifying reality. Illusion becomes experiential truth.

For Black Scholar, the antidote to this condition is a deliberate return to objectivity, logic, and facticity—or, more precisely, to the acknowledgment of an Absolute Truth that exists independently of emotional preference. Yet he is not naïve. He recognizes the formidable difficulty of perceiving or valuing objective reality when one is deeply immersed in subjectivity and self-fabricated worlds—what may be termed moral relativity.

In such a state, passion governs, and reason is reduced to servitude. It no longer seeks truth; it merely rationalizes desire.