one acknowledges the pleasantness of having gained the loved one's interest. Hope – one envisions gaining the love of the loved one. Delight – one delights in overrating the beauty and merit of the person whose love one hopes to win. This journey or crystallization process, shown above, was detailed by Stendhal on the back of a playing card while speaking to Madame Gherardi, during his trip to the Salzburg salt mine. Applications Psychologist Dorothy Tennov describes the process as a transformation in which the loved one’s characteristics are crystallized via mental events and neurological reconfigurations such that attractive characteristics are exaggerated and unattractive characteristics are given little or no attention. She uses this basis for her description of a "limerent object", related to the concept of limerence. References Love Stendhal