A drive and a motivation to find those “moments of transcendence when the skull line disappears and we are lost in a challenge or a task.” From the book The Social Animal by David Brooks (quote from TED Talk by Brooks).
“Limerence is a term coined c. 1977 by the psychologist Dorothy Tennov, a neologism used to describe an involuntary state of mind which seems to result from a romantic attraction for another person combined with an overwhelming, obsessive need to have one’s feelings reciprocated.” From Wikipedia.org.
As Brooks uses the term, limerence is very close to Alan Brown’s term “captivation,” which is in turn very close to the term “flow.” All of them essentially mean that moment in an activity when all other distractions completely fall away and we’re 100% absorbed in the task at hand. Whatever you call it, this concept is central to the power of the arts to impact individuals.