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Asymmetric relational depth increases exploitability, and relational depletion that is unrecorded during valuation and circulation stages ultimately manifests as exhaustion and lost generative capacity during the reproduction stage. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.METHODOLOGICAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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To establish a comprehensive taxonomy and dynamic model of relational value exploitation across the complete relational lifecycle using Lacanian registers.

August 29, 2026Open Access

The Handbook of Relational Value Exploitation: Taxonomy and Mechanisms

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To establish a comprehensive taxonomy and dynamic model of relational value exploitation across the complete relational lifecycle using Lacanian registers.
Divided the relational lifecycle into six extended spacetimes: encounter, formation, co-generation, valuation, circulation, and reproduction.
Categorized interventions by interaction form, enabling conditions, actual process, and dynamics across Lacanian registers (Real, Imaginary, Symbolic).
Cataloged 225 exploitative mechanisms organized into atomic sites, single-stage composites, and multi-stage motifs with local admissibility tests.
Interventions entering through the Real represent 10% to 20% of sites during encounter, formation, and co-generation, fall to 0% at valuation and 5% at circulation, and return to 12.5% at reproduction.
Interventions entering through the Imaginary persist through valuation, demonstrating that Real depletion stems specifically from Lacanian foreclosure rather than generalized symbolic dominance.
Asymmetric relational depth increases appropriable surface area and raises exit costs for the more invested party, directly heightening their vulnerability to exploitation.

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Taxonomic analysis uncovers 225 mechanisms of value appropriation across relational lifecycles, suggesting asymmetric depth increases vulnerability to exploitation.

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Wanhong HUANG (2026) studied this question.

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Taxonomic analysis uncovers 225 mechanisms of value appropriation across relational lifecycles, suggesting asymmetric depth increases vulnerability to exploitation.

The Handbook of Relational Value Exploitation: Taxonomy and Mechanisms

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