{"id":231646,"date":"2014-01-20T15:43:54","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T15:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/01\/20\/the-fastidious-ick-of-charles-augustus-magnussen\/"},"modified":"2014-01-20T15:43:54","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T15:43:54","slug":"the-fastidious-ick-of-charles-augustus-magnussen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/01\/20\/the-fastidious-ick-of-charles-augustus-magnussen\/","title":{"rendered":"The fastidious ick of Charles Augustus Magnussen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/professorfangirl.tumblr.com\/post\/73867500017\/the-fastidious-ick-of-charles-augustus-magnussen\" target=\"_blank\">professorfangirl<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/44f34e53a244c79ff620beb4fd3222a2\/tumblr_inline_mznz5y5L0Y1rrol2a.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well now aren\u2019t these two are a pair. No, really, I\u2019ve been thinking a lot about identification and desire in this third series, and Magnussen\u2019s like a slightly grotesque reflection of Sherlock. He\u2019s in a strange opposition to Moriarty, almost like superego and id. (I\u2019m not fond of Freud\u2019s id\/ego\/superego theory, too schematic for me, but it does interesting work here. To review: id is base animal instinct, driven by the pleasure principle without restraint; ego is primary self, operating through the reality principle to make sense of the self-in-the-world; superego is civilization, the strictures of morals and manners.) In appearance Magnussen could hardly be farther from Moriarty:<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/07fadd542082d6bc6e3ecd12a9e7db61\/tumblr_inline_mzo02d4WJk1rrol2a.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/96cfde99a62788af3fac70193cc46e94\/tumblr_inline_mzo02v2V4I1rrol2a.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In psychological function, too, they\u2019re starkly differentiated: Moriarty raving in that padded oubliette is pure id, real bloody bottom-of-the-brain stuff, unfiltered by reason. (\u201cPadded oubliette\u201d is sublim8\u2019s term, and it\u2019s perfect for this grimy cell of the unconscious.) He\u2019s fixed on the primal forces\u2014fear, pain, death; mother, father, sex (the Woman)\u2026and John. Love. The force that opposes Moriarty at the core of Sherlock\u2019s being. When Jim tells him that heartbreak, loss, and death are \u201call good,\u201d John in reality touches his face and calls to him. Reaching in through the purest animal need to live, John will always call Sherlock back to his life and his best self.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/professorfangirl.tumblr.com\/post\/73867500017\/the-fastidious-ick-of-charles-augustus-magnussen\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>professorfangirl: Well now aren\u2019t these two are a pair. No, really, I\u2019ve been thinking a lot about identification and desire in this third series, and Magnussen\u2019s like a slightly grotesque reflection of Sherlock. He\u2019s in a strange opposition to Moriarty, almost like superego and id. (I\u2019m not fond of Freud\u2019s id\/ego\/superego theory, too schematic for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/01\/20\/the-fastidious-ick-of-charles-augustus-magnussen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The fastidious ick of Charles Augustus Magnussen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[18919,5326,1810,9037,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}